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What does cartilage mean?

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Noun
  1. (anatomy) A type of dense, non-vascular connective tissue, usually found at the end of joints, the rib cage, the ear, the nose, in the throat and between intervertebral disks.
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The drug, called Tissuegene-C, is used to treat degenerative arthritis, also known as osteoarthritis, by helping regenerate cartilage in joints.
The transplant, carried out last week, involved the implant of the entire ankle joint including ankle bone and cartilage.
This process puts greater stress on the articular cartilage of the vertebrae and their respective end plates.
But 20 minutes later he was again stretchered off with a suspected cartilage problem.
The mass also contained cystic spaces lined by columnar epithelium, sebaceous glands, cartilage, smooth muscle, and pancreatic acini.
The bulge in the neck known as the Adam's apple is the front of this cartilage.

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