FIBROCARTILAGE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does fibrocartilage mean? 

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

1. cartilage that is largely composed of fibers like those in ordinary connective tissue

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• FIBROCARTILAGE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Cartilage that is largely composed of fibers like those in ordinary connective tissue

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

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

cartilage; gristle (tough elastic tissue; mostly converted to bone in adults)

 Context examples 

There are three types of cartilage; namely elastic, hyaline, and fibrocartilage.

(Cartilage, NCI Thesaurus)