subchondral

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adjective

Lying under articular cartilage and containing marrow.

OriginEnglish chondral ← Latin sub- →
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Meanings

adjectivesubchondral (not comparable)
  1. not comparableanatomyLying under articular cartilage and containing marrow.

    The subchondral osseous layer which contains the embryonic marrow is thin

    1880, Victor Cornil, Louis Antoine Ranvier, Edward Oram Shakespeare, J. Henry Clay Simes, A Manual of Pathological Histology, page 236
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    Chondral and osteochondral fractures involve traumatic damage to the cartilage and the subchondral bone

    2006, Juergen Maeurer, Martin Breitenseher, Imaging Strategies for the Knee, page 29

Origin

  1. Latinsub
  2. Latinsub-
  3. Englishsub-
  4. Englishchondral
  5. Englishsubchondral

From sub- + chondral.

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APA

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Chicago

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