Definition & Meaning | English word FIBROCARTILAGE
FIBROCARTILAGE
Definitions of FIBROCARTILAGE
- A tough form of cartilage that has a matrix of dense bundles of fibres.
Number of letters
14
Is palindrome
No
Examples of Using FIBROCARTILAGE in a Sentence
- An intervertebral disc (or intervertebral fibrocartilage) lies between adjacent vertebrae in the vertebral column.
- This joint is connected by fibrocartilage and may contain a fluid-filled cavity; the center is avascular, possibly due to the nature of the compressive forces passing through this joint, which may lead to harmful vascular disease.
- A fibrocartilage callus is a temporary formation of fibroblasts and chondroblasts which forms at the area of a bone fracture as the bone attempts to heal itself.
- The extracellular matrix of fibrocartilage is mainly made from type I collagen secreted by chondroblasts.
- Instead, it is connected to and articulates with the ulna through the Triangular fibrocartilage disc and ligament, which forms part of the ulnocarpal joint capsule.
- Consequent to a patient lengthening, rather than shortening, the adjustable-rod frame of his external-fixation apparatus, Ilizarov observed the formation of a fibrocartilage callus at and around the site of the bone fracture, and so discovered the phenomenon of distraction osteogenesis, the regeneration of bone and soft tissues that culminates in the creation of new bone.
- Using ultrasound, chondrocalcinosis may be depicted as echogenic foci with no acoustic shadow within the hyaline cartilage or fibrocartilage.
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