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costal cartilages

costal cartilages is the plural of costal cartilage.

Meaning of costal cartilage

Noun

costal cartilage (plural costal cartilages)

  1. One of the bars of hyaline cartilage, found at the anterior ends of the ribs, that serve to prolong the ribs forward and contribute to the elasticity of the walls of the thorax.

Questions about costal cartilages

What is costal cartilages the plural of?
Costal cartilages is the plural of costal cartilage.

Words near costal cartilages in the dictionary

  1. costained
  2. costaining
  3. costains
  4. costal
  5. costal cartilage
  6. costal cartilages
  7. Costales
  8. Costaleses
  9. costalgia
  10. costally
  11. costamere

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