Word Meanings - FIBROCHONDROSTEAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Partly fibrous, partly cartilaginous, and partly osseous. St. George Mivart.

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• PARTLY
  In part; in some measure of degree; not wholly. "I partly believe it." 1 Cor. xi. 18.
• OSSEOUS
  Composed of bone; resembling bone; capable of forming bone; bony; ossific.
• GEORGE NOBLE
  A gold noble of the time of Henry VIII. See Noble, n.
• GEORGE
  1. A figure of St. George on horseback, appended to the collar of the Order of the Garter. See Garter. 2. A kind of brown loaf. Dryden.
• FIBROUS
  Containing, or consisting of, fibers; as, the fibrous coat of the cocoanut; the fibrous roots of grasses. -- Fi"brous*ness, n.
• CARTILAGINOUS
  Having the skeleton in the state of cartilage, the bones containing little or no calcareous matter; said of certain fishes, as the sturgeon and the sharks. (more info) 1. Of or pertaining to cartilage; gristly; firm and tough like cartilage.
• INTERCARTILAGINOUS
  Within cartilage; endochondral; as, intercartilaginous ossification.
• SUBFIBROUS
  Somewhat fibrous.
• INTEROSSEAL; INTEROSSEOUS
  Situated between bones; as, an interosseous ligament.
• SUBCARTILAGINOUS
  Situated under or beneath a cartilage or cartilages. Partially cartilaginous.
• EXOSSEOUS
  Boneless. "Exosseous animals. " Sir T. Browne.