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subchondral

subchondral adjective: lying under articular cartilage and containing marrow.

Adjective

subchondral (not comparable)

  1. Lying under articular cartilage and containing marrow.
    • The subchondral osseous layer which contains the embryonic marrow is thin1880, Victor Cornil, Louis Antoine Ranvier, Edward Oram Shakespeare, J. Henry Clay Simes, A Manual of Pathological Histology, page 236
    • Chondral and osteochondral fractures involve traumatic damage to the cartilage and the subchondral bone2006, Juergen Maeurer, Martin Breitenseher, Imaging Strategies for the Knee, page 29

Origin of subchondral

From sub- + chondral.

Words formed from subchondral

  • subchondrally

Questions about subchondral

What does subchondral mean?
Subchondral means lying under articular cartilage and containing marrow.
What part of speech is subchondral?
Subchondral is an adjective.

Words near subchondral in the dictionary

  1. subchlorin
  2. subchlorins
  3. subchloroplast
  4. subchoice
  5. subchoices
  6. subchondral
  7. subchondrial
  8. subchondritic
  9. subchord
  10. subchords
  11. subchorial

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