Sample sentences for CARTILAGE

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Definition

tough elastic tissue found in such places as joints

a cartilage tear in the knee

She is experimenting with lab-grown cartilage.
Conventional X rays don't provide good images of cartilage.
he drove the blade between the vertebrae and the brain. It was an easy shot now and he felt the cartilage sever.
Ernest Hemingway -- The Old Man and the Sea

cartilage = tough elastic tissue found in such places as joints

She hit him again, heard the crunch of cartilage as his nose fountained more blood.
J.D. Robb -- Naked in Death
A large drop, composed of similar materials, was suspended from the cartilage of his nose, and, falling below his lips, rested on his chin.
James Fenimore Cooper -- The Pioneers
They injected synthetic cartilage material and shaved the meniscus.
Chris Kyle -- American Sniper
She could see through the bloody cartilage into his mouth, and onto the back of his lacerated tongue.
Ian McEwan -- Atonement
At least the flesh was tasty and unfishy, and the crunchiness of cartilage was a welcome respite from so much soft food.
Yann Martel -- Life of Pi
With crushing force, he drove his thumb into the soft cartilage and felt it depress.
Dan Brown -- Angels & Demons
She couldn't have been more than fourteen or fifteen and seemed to have as many piercings in the cartilage of each ear.
Alexandra Bracken -- The Darkest Minds
We began to hope that we should find some of those saurians which science has succeeded in reconstructing from bits of bone or cartilage.
Jules Verne -- A Journey to the Center of the Earth
More cartilage and tendon tissue were lost from the chronic inflammation.
Dean Koontz -- Sole Survivor
He had messed up his cartilage so bad that they had to operate.
Edward Bloor -- Tangerine
I held up the spear-shaped cartilage in the breast bone, which most people don't eat, and bit down with a satisfying crunch.
Jeannette Walls -- The Glass Castle
Every time I coughed, the pain from my torn thoracic cartilage felt like someone was jabbing a knife beneath my ribs, and brought tears to my eyes.
Jon Krakauer -- Into Thin Air
Fluoroquinolones cause cartilage damage in immature beagle pups.
Tracy Kidder -- Mountains Beyond Mountains
Impossibly tall, four-armed, molded in chrome and cartilage, the Shrike turned its red gaze on us.
Dan Simmons -- Hyperion
Damaged muscle and cartilage will stiffen your joints.
Ben Mikaeslen -- Touching Spirit Bear
The ornaments that were ordinarily pendant from the cartilages of his ears had been removed, on account of his present pursuit.
James Fenimore Cooper -- The Prairie

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