cartilage bone

noun

1. a bone that develops from cartilage.

cartilage bone

noun

1. See membrane bone
   any bone that develops within cartilage rather than in a fibrous tissue membrane Compare membrane bone

Example Sentences

In Bony Ganoids both cartilage bone and membrane bone is well developed.

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The lower jaw or mandible remains partly cartilaginous, while its ossifications include two membrane bones and one cartilage bone.

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The cartilage bone is the mento-meckelian (fig. 26, A, 14), a very small ossification at the extreme anterior end.

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It remains to a considerable extent cartilaginous, but is partly converted into cartilage bone, partly sheathed in membrane bone.

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Each ramus of the mandible always consists of a cartilage bone, the articular, and several membrane bones.

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