Crossword-Solution: PERICHONDRIUM
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Perichondrium | n. | The membrane of fibrous connective tissue which closely invests cartilage, except where covering articular surfaces. |
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| a fibrous membrane covering cartilage except at joints | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
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eruption
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Sentences with PERICHONDRIUM (5)
The symptoms are referred to the joint, because it is there that the muscles are inserted and drag on the perichondrium when movement occurs; swelling is most marked in the vicinity of the joint, and it may be added to by effusion into the synovial cavity.
Thyrotomy revealed such extensive involvement, with an open ulceration which had reached the perichondrium, that the entire left wing of the thyroid cartilage was removed with the left arytenoid.
Simultaneous with the formation of the cavities (s.) due to this absorption, connective tissue (p.c.i.) from the surrounding perichondrium (p.c.) grows into the ossifying* bar.
The term #hæmatoma auris# is applied to a sub-perichondrial effusion of blood, which may occur either as the result of injury to the auricle, for example in football players, or as a result of trophic changes in the cartilage and perichondrium.
See Ect-, and Ostosis.] (Physiol.) Defn: A process of bone formation in which ossification takes place in the perichondrium and either surrounds or gradually replaces the cartilage.