CARTILAGE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cartilage mean? 

• CARTILAGE (noun)
  The noun CARTILAGE has 1 sense:

1. tough elastic tissue; mostly converted to bone in adults

  Familiarity information: CARTILAGE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CARTILAGE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Tough elastic tissue; mostly converted to bone in adults

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

cartilage; gristle

Hypernyms ("cartilage" is a kind of...):

animal tissue (the tissue in the bodies of animals)

Meronyms (parts of "cartilage"):

ground substance; intercellular substance; matrix (the body substance in which tissue cells are embedded)

Meronyms (substance of "cartilage"):

collagen (a fibrous scleroprotein in bone and cartilage and tendon and other connective tissue; yields gelatin on boiling)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cartilage"):

meniscus; semilunar cartilage ((anatomy) a disk of cartilage that serves as a cushion between the ends of bones that meet at a joint)

fibrocartilage (cartilage that is largely composed of fibers like those in ordinary connective tissue)

hyaline cartilage (translucent cartilage that is common in joints and the respiratory passages; forms most of the fetal skeleton)

arytaenoid; arytenoid; arytenoid cartilage (either of two small cartilages at the back of the larynx to which the vocal folds are attached)

Adam's apple; thyroid cartilage (the largest cartilage of the larynx)

Holonyms ("cartilage" is a substance of...):

cartilaginous structure (body structure given shape by cartilage)

Derivation:

cartilaginous (of or relating to cartilage)

 Context examples 

Morphogenetic Protein 5 signals through receptor serine/threonine kinases and induces cartilage and bone formation.

(Bone Morphogenetic Protein 5, NCI Thesaurus)

This protein is involved in the mediation of bone, cartilage, tooth and limb development.

(Bone Morphogenetic Protein 4, NCI Thesaurus)

A multipotent subset of bone marrow stromal cells able to form bone, cartilage, stromal cells that support blood formation, fat, and fibrous tissue.

(Bone marrow stromal stem cells (skeletal stem cells), The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

It induces cartilage and bone formation and may be the osteoinductive factor responsible for the phenomenon of epithelial osteogenesis.

(Bone Morphogenetic Protein 7, NCI Thesaurus)

A rare malignant tumor characterized by a bimorphic pattern composed of undifferentiated small round cells and islands of well differentiated hyaline cartilage.

(Mesenchymal Chondrosarcoma, NCI Thesaurus)

A broad, fibro-elastic membrane extending from the upper border of the thyroid cartilage to the greater cornu and posterior border of the hyoid bone.

(Middle Thyrohyoid Ligament, NCI Thesaurus)

A rare malignant tumor of soft tissue characterized by a bimorphic pattern composed of undifferentiated small round cells and islands of well differentiated hyaline cartilage.

(Mesenchymal Extraskeletal Chondrosarcoma, NCI Thesaurus)

Research dollars spent on bone or cartilage research.

(Bone and Cartilage Funding, NCI Thesaurus)

This allele, which encodes bone morphogenetic protein 5, plays a role in serine/threonine kinase signal transduction and induces cartilage and bone formation.

(BMP5 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

This gene plays a role in cartilage and bone formation.

(BMP10 Gene, NCI Thesaurus)