different between cartilage vs synchondrosis

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French cartilage, from Latin cartil?g?. Partially displaced native gristle, from Old English gristel.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?k??.t?l.?d??/, /?k??t.l?d??/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?k??.t?l.?d??/, /?k??t.l?d??/

Noun

cartilage (countable and uncountable, plural cartilages)

1. (anatomy, uncountable) A usually translucent and somewhat elastic, dense, nonvascular connective tissue found in various forms in the larynx and respiratory tract, in structures such as the external ear, and in the articulating surfaces of joints. It composes most of the skeleton of vertebrate embryos, being replaced by bone during ossification in the higher vertebrates.

   Synonym: gristle

2. (anatomy, countable) A particular structure made of cartilage.

Derived terms

• cartilaginoid
• cartilaginous
• cartilogenesis

Translations

References

• “cartilage”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
• “cartilage”, in Merriam–Webster Online Dictionary, (Please provide a date or year).

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin cartil?g?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka?.ti.la?/

Noun

cartilage m (uncountable)

1. (anatomy) cartilage

Further reading

• “cartilage” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• glacerait

Old French

Etymology

First known attestation 1377-1377, borrowed from Latin cartil?g?.

Noun

cartilage m (oblique plural cartilages, nominative singular cartilages, nominative plural cartilage)

1. (anatomy) cartilage

English

Etymology

Borrowed from New Latin synchondr?sis.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?s??.k?n?d???.s?s/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?s?n?k?n?d?o?.s?s/
• Rhymes: -??s?s

Noun

synchondrosis (plural synchondroses)

1. (anatomy) A form of only slightly-moveable articulation between bones joined by hyaline cartilage, as in the spinal vertebrae.

References

• “synchondrosis”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
• “synchondrosis”, in Merriam–Webster Online Dictionary, (Please provide a date or year).
• Maurice A. (Toby) Arnold ((Can we date this quote?)) “Arnold's Glossary of Anatomy”, in Anatomy and Histology

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ???????????? (sunkhóndr?sis, “junction of two bones by cartilage”), from ???- (sug-, “with, together”) +? ??????? (khóndros, “gristle, cartilage”) +? -???? (-?sis, “state, condition”).

Pronunciation

• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /sin.kon?dro.sis/, [si?k?n??d????s?is]

Noun

synchondr?sis f (genitive synchondr?sis or synchondr?se?s or synchondr?sios); third declension (New Latin)

1. (anatomy) A synchondrosis.

Inflection

Third-declension noun (Greek-type, i-stem, i-stem).

¹Found sometimes in Medieval and New Latin.

Descendants

? English: synchondrosis