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Definition of Fibrocartilage
1. Noun. Cartilage that is largely composed of fibers like those in ordinary connective tissue.
Definition of Fibrocartilage
1. n. A kind of cartilage with a fibrous matrix and approaching fibrous connective tissue in structure.
Definition of Fibrocartilage
1. Noun. A tough form of cartilage that has a matrix of dense bundles of fibres ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Medical Definition of Fibrocartilage
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Fibrocartilage
Literary usage of Fibrocartilage
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Anatomy, Descriptive and Applied by Henry Gray (1913)
"Small masses of fibrocartilage are also developed in the tendons of some muscles,
... Yellow or Elastic fibrocartilage is found in the human body in the ..."
2. Anatomy of the Human Body by Henry Gray (1918)
"White fibrocartilage.—White fibrocartilage consists of a mixture of white fibrous
tissue and ... White fibrocartilage from an intervertebral fibrocartilage. ..."
3. The New Sydenham Society's Lexicon of Medicine and the Allied Sciences ...by Henry Power, Leonard William Sedgwick, New Sydenham Society by Henry Power, Leonard William Sedgwick, New Sydenham Society (1882)
"With ordinary mixed diet they contain muscular fibres, the cells of cartilage
and fibrocartilage, elastic tissue, mucin, nuclein and fatty matters, ..."
4. Therapeutic Gazette (1899)
"Finally cases of excision of the internal semilunar fibrocartilage were mentioned.
One was described in which the history four years after the operation ..."
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