fibrocartilage

IPA: fˈaɪbroʊkˈɑrtʌɫʌdʒ

Examples of "fibrocartilage" in Sentences

The fibrocartilage skeleton and related structures of the ventral pouch of balaenopterid whales.
The fibers in fibrocartilage give it its toughness, and the cartilage part gives it its flexibility.
The Articular Disk (discus articularis; interarticular fibrocartilage; articular meniscus) (Fig. 311).
It is regarded as a rudimentary intervertebral fibrocartilage, and in it traces of the notochord may persist.
However, while scar tissue, called fibrocartilage, fills the area where the cartilage is missing, it does not have the same strength and resiliency as normal articular cartilage.
Behind, it is separated from the bodies of the fourth and fifth lumbar vertebræ, and the intervening fibrocartilage, by the terminations of the two common iliac veins and the commencement of the inferior vena cava.
In three-fourths of a large number of cases, the aorta bifurcated either upon the fourth lumbar vertebra, or upon the fibrocartilage between it and the fifth; the bifurcation being, in one case out of nine, below, and in one out of eleven, above this point.
The jugular notch is in the same horizontal plane as the lower border of the body of the second thoracic vertebra; the sternal angle is at the level of the fifth thoracic vertebra, while the junction between the body and xiphoid process of the sternum corresponds to the fibrocartilage between the ninth and tenth thoracic vertebræ.