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Cartilaginous

Cartilaginous meaning

Comprising soft cartilage rather than bone. | Related to or resembling cartilage. | Comprising soft cartilage rather than bone.

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Adjacent slits are separated by a cartilaginous gill arch from which projects a cartilaginous gill ray.

The congressman added the “bullet track produced a 2cm wide wound that extended down to the cartilaginous surface of the ear,” and there had been “initially significant bleeding, followed by marked swelling of the entire upper ear”.

Meanwhile, cartilaginous fish grow to be far bigger, with species such as whale sharks weighing up to 34 metric tons.

Boiling certain cartilaginous cuts of meat or bones results in gelatin being dissolved into the water.

Cartilaginous fish produce a small number of large, yolky eggs.

Early cartilaginous ( Chondrichthyes ) and bony fishes ( Osteichthyes ) also become diverse and played a large role within the Devonian seas.

Indeed, in many cartilaginous fish, the anterior portion of the kidney may degenerate or cease to function altogether in the adult.

In its fresh condition this protist is soft and cartilaginous, varying in color from a greenish-yellow, through red, to a dark purple or purplish-brown.

Like a pig, it has a snout ending in a cartilaginous disc, and eyes that are small relative to its head.

The cushion pads of the feet contain cartilaginous nodes and have similarities to the acoustic fat found in marine mammals like toothed whales and sirenians.

The following five sets are known as " false ribs " (costae spuriae), three of these sharing a common cartilaginous connection to the sternum, while the last two (eleventh and twelfth ribs) are termed floating ribs (costae fluctuantes) or vertebral ribs.

This allows more efficient locomotion among these negatively buoyant cartilaginous fish.

This includes bony fishes ( Osteichthyes ), cartilaginous fish ( Chondrichthyes ), and jawless fish ( Agnatha ).

This includes bony fishes (Osteichthyes), cartilaginous fishes (Chondrichthyes), and jawless fishes (Agnatha).

This is connected indirectly with the eardrum via a mostly cartilaginous extracolumella and medially to the inner-ear spaces via a widened footplate in the fenestra ovalis.

Thylacines, uniquely for marsupials, have largely cartilaginous epipubic bones with a highly reduced osseous element.

While some specimens of this stem-bird have flat breastbones, some show a small ridge that may have supported a cartilaginous keel.