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Gristle   /grˈɪsəl/   Listen
Gristle

noun
1.
Tough elastic tissue; mostly converted to bone in adults.  Synonym: cartilage.






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"Gristle" Quotes from Famous Books



... of the foot are preeminently the lateral cartilages and the plantar cushion. The lateral cartilages are two irregularly four-sided plates of gristle, one on either side of the foot, extending from the wings of the coffin bone backward to the heels and upward to a distance of an inch or more above the edge of the hair, where they may be felt by the fingers. When sound, these plates are elastic ...
— Special Report on Diseases of the Horse • United States Department of Agriculture



Words linked to "Gristle" :   cartilaginous structure, intercellular substance, arytaenoid, hyaline cartilage, semilunar cartilage, ground substance, arytenoid cartilage, thyroid cartilage, gristly, fibrocartilage, matrix, Adam's apple, meniscus, arytenoid, animal tissue, collagen, cartilage



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