Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • An order of fishes having or supposed to have a cartilaginous skeleton: nearly the same as Chondropterygii.

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Examples

  • The Cartilages of the Larynx (cartilagines laryngis) (Fig. 950) are nine in number, three single and three paired, as follows: 4

    XI. Splanchnology. 1a. The Larynx 1918

  • The cartilaginous frame-work (cartilagines nasi) consists of five large pieces, viz., the cartilage of the septum, the two lateral and the two greater alar cartilages, and several smaller pieces, the lesser alar cartilages (Figs. 852, 853, 854).

    X. The Organs of the Senses and the Common Integument. 1b. The Organ of Smell 1918

  • The part which forms the lateral wall (crus laterale) is curved to correspond with the ala of the nose; it is oval and flattened, narrow behind, where it is connected with the frontal process of the maxilla by a tough fibrous membrane, in which are found three or four small cartilaginous plates, the lesser alar cartilages (cartilagines alares minores; sesamoid cartilages).

    X. The Organs of the Senses and the Common Integument. 1b. The Organ of Smell 1918

  • Afperae arteriae illamherniam, quae accidit, fi cartilagines ejus a fe invicem receduiit & interjefta membrana a fpiritu inflatur, cognitam habuit.

    Institutiones historiae medicinae Johann Christian Gottlieb Ackermann 1792

  • Senes pedes a terra vix tollere valent; ideoqin planiffimas femper calcant vias; mufculorum cnini tendines jam minus elaftici & rigidiorc: evafere, cartilagines minus flexiles in ofla indunierunt, ner - vique demum lentius officio perfunguntur fuo; un - de rigor mmorque mobilitas artuum pendet.

    Caroli a Linné equit. aur. de stella polari archiatri regii med. et botan. profess. Upsal. Acad ... 1788

  • Conglomeratse primum glandulaj, in majoribus & in minimis etiam dearticu - lationibus reperiuntur, cum etiam inter commiffas fibi laryngis cartilagines la - cinia (c) ejufmodi fe interponat.

    Elementa physiologiae corporis humani .. 1776

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