endochondral

American  

[en-doh-kahn-druhl] / ˌɛn doʊˈkɑn drəl /

adjective

1. Anatomy. located or happening within cartilage, as opposed to on its surface. In endochondral ossification, or bone formation from cartilage, cartilage is an intermediate state developing from mesenchyme and later replaced by bone.

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Derived Forms

• endochondrally
  adverb

Example Sentences

The development of bone from fibrous membranes is called intramembranous ossification; development from hyaline cartilage is called endochondral ossification.

From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022

All of the bones of the body, except for the flat bones of the skull, mandible, and clavicles, are formed through endochondral ossification.

From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022

These cells differentiate into a hyaline cartilage model for each vertebra, which then grow and eventually ossify into bone through the process of endochondral ossification.

From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013

In contrast, the cranial base and facial bones are produced by the process of endochondral ossification, in which mesenchyme tissue initially produces a hyaline cartilage model of the future bone.

From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013

In young specimens no distinct ossification of the cleithrum or ossification of endochondral centers are evident.

From Neotropical Hylid Frogs, Genus Smilisca by Duellman, William E.