subcartilaginous

adjective

Situated under or beneath a cartilage or cartilages.

“subcartilaginous tumour”

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Meanings

adjectivesubcartilaginous (not comparable)
  1. not comparableanatomySituated under or beneath a cartilage or cartilages.

    subcartilaginous tumour

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    The subcartilaginous layer of bone is a dense plate of epiphysitis it is necessary to form a clear and compact osseous tissue

    1892, Medical News and Abstract
  2. not comparableanatomyPartially cartilaginous.

    A very pretty species with the frondiform stems quite unaltered in drying, the leaves glossy, rigid, subcartilaginous, pale.

    1921 August 28, Hugh Neville Dixon, “On a Collection of Mosses from the Kanara district”, in The Journal of Indian Botany

Origin

From sub- + cartilaginous.

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