neocartilage

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noun

newly-formed cartilage

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Meanings

nounneocartilage (usually uncountable, plural neocartilages)

plural neocartilages

  1. uncountableusuallynewly-formed cartilage
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    Surgeons have experimented with possible combination therapies; most notably Lee et al. showed in a porcine model using histopathological observation that injection of bone marrow-derived MSCs suspended in Hyaluronan (Hylan G-F 20: Synvisc) could home to the site of injury, adhere, proliferate, and lead to neocartilage formation.

    2015 July 15, Peter Succar et al., “Alterations in the Secretome of Clinically Relevant Preparations of Adipose-Derived Mesenchymal Stem Cells Cocultured with Hyaluronan”, in Stem Cells International, volume 2015, →DOI

Origin

From neo- + cartilage.

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