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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
- 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
cartilage = tough elastic tissue found in such places as joints
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