Sentence examples for a layer of cartilage from inspiring English sources

Predictions of the tissue distribution in the chambers produced the two different classes of results found experimentally: (i) chambers with a layer of bone across the chamber covered by a layer of cartilage on top and (ii) chambers with almost no bone, mainly fibrous tissue and small islands of cartilage.

At 12 and 24 weeks post-operatively, the collagen layer was found to have degraded, and had been replaced with a layer of cartilage.

Underneath the surface cartilage, however, is a layer of mineralized cartilage, which connects it to the subchondral bone.

Bone formation is polarized towards the joint surface, and preserves a layer of articular cartilage [ 6].

The distal lateral condyle is composed of a large amount of cartilage that expands the functional surface cranially and medially (Fig. 6C, D), whereas the distal medial condyle is covered only by a thin layer of cartilage that only expands the shape slightly.

The passage taken by the instrument, was filled with a comparatively soft fibro-cellular substance with islands of cartilage in which calcification of the cartilage was in progress, A layer of newly-formed articular cartilage covered the head of the femur, and a very thin layer of what seemed lo be the original articular cartilage lay loose in the joint.

After 52 weeks, all but one empty control defect were covered by bone and a very thin layer of cartilage (ICRS 7 points).

When implanted with ACP/PLLA and bFGF, most of the defects were filled with a well-established layer of cartilage tissue with abundance of cartilaginous extracellular matrix accumulation observed.

Although the tarsals of the littermate control mouse show complete ossification by 20 days of age, the fused tarsal element of Tak1col2 mice shows incomplete ossification with a layer of Alcian blue positive cartilage surrounding the ossified centre.

To make the defect walls perfectly perpendicular to the articular surface and to remove the whole calcified layer of cartilage, a motorized drill for spinal surgery with a stop-mechanism, so that the depth drilled was exactly the same in all samples, was used.

Furthermore, the appositional growth of cartilage as suggested by Dowthwaite and colleagues [ 2] indicates a functional role for the superficial layer of cartilage.