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Definition of Chondrify
1. Verb. Turn into cartilage. "The tissue chondrifies"
Definition of Chondrify
1. v. t. & i. To convert, or be converted, into cartilage.
Definition of Chondrify
1. Verb. To convert, or be converted, into cartilage. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Medical Definition of Chondrify
1. To become cartilaginous. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Chondrify
Literary usage of Chondrify
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Development of the Chick: An Introduction to Embryology by Frank Rattray Lillie (1908)
"The lumbar and sacral membranous costal processes do not chondrify separately
from the vertebral bodies; if they persist at all, therefore, they appear as ..."
2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"This plate is divided at the mid- line by a straight, somewhat beaded rod of soft
indifferent tissue, which does not chondrify ; cv /. it Í8 rounded at its ..."
3. The Scientific Memoirs of Thomas Henry Huxley by Thomas Henry Huxley, Michael Foster, Edwin Ray Lankester (1898)
"It has been seen above that the median trabecula does not chondrify, but eventually
disappears; in its place, a truly cartilaginous short thick band grows ..."
4. Lectures on the Elements of Comparative Anatomy by Thomas Henry Huxley (1864)
"The two lateral trabeculae—parts which I have also seen in Frogs, Lizards, Birds,
and Mammals—chondrify at the beginning of the third period. ..."
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