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| car·ti·lage [ krt'lij ] (plural car·ti·lag·es) |
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strong elastic tissue in body: the tough elastic tissue that is found in the nose, throat, and ear and in other parts of the body and forms most of the skeleton in infancy, changing to bone during growth
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| [15th century. Via French< Latin cartilago] |
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