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osteochondral

osteochondral adjective: pertaining to bone and cartilage.

Adjective

osteochondral (not comparable)

  1. Pertaining to bone and cartilage.
    • They are known as osteochondral scaffolds, because they support new bone and cartilage as it grows.2009 August 16, Anne Eisenberg, “Mimicking Human Cartilage to Repair a Knee”, in New York Times

Origin of osteochondral

From osteo- + chondral.

Questions about osteochondral

What does osteochondral mean?
Osteochondral means pertaining to bone and cartilage.
What part of speech is osteochondral?
Osteochondral is an adjective.

Words near osteochondral in the dictionary

  1. osteocartilagenous
  2. osteocartilaginous
  3. osteocatabolic
  4. osteocatabolism
  5. osteochemonecrosis
  6. osteochondral
  7. osteochondritic
  8. osteochondritis
  9. osteochondritis dissecans
  10. osteochondroblast
  11. osteochondroblastic

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