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COSTAL CARTILAGE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does costal cartilage mean?
• COSTAL CARTILAGE (noun)
The noun COSTAL CARTILAGE has 1 sense:
1. the cartilages that connect the sternum and the ends of the ribs; its elasticity allows the chest to move in respiration
Familiarity information: COSTAL CARTILAGE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The cartilages that connect the sternum and the ends of the ribs; its elasticity allows the chest to move in respiration
Classified under:
Nouns denoting body parts
Hypernyms ("costal cartilage" is a kind of...):
cartilaginous structure (body structure given shape by cartilage)
Holonyms ("costal cartilage" is a part of...):
costa; rib (any of the 12 pairs of curved arches of bone extending from the spine to or toward the sternum in humans (and similar bones in most vertebrates))
Context examples
The seventh hyaline cartilaginous joint between the ribs and costal cartilage.
(Costochondral Joint 7, NCI Thesaurus)
The first hyaline cartilaginous joint between the ribs and costal cartilage.
(Costochondral Joint 1, NCI Thesaurus)
Hyaline cartilaginous joint between the ribs and costal cartilage.
(Costochondral Joint, NCI Thesaurus)
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