subchondraladj.
/ˌsʌbˈkɒndr(ə)l/, U.S. /ˌsəbˈkɑndrəl/ Anatomy and Medicine.
Located or occurring beneath cartilage, spec. that of an articular surface of a bone.
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subcartilaginous1775
subchondral1871
intercartilaginous1872
interchondral1887
1871 C. H. Hackley tr. T. Billroth Gen. Surg. Pathol. & Therapeutics vii. 221 It begins to be detached from the bone by the occurrence of inflammation and suppuration between cartilage and bone (subchondral ostitis [Ger. subchondrale Ostitis]).
1885 Lancet 7 Mar. 427/2 Subchondral caries allowed of easy removal of what remained.
1925 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 3 Oct. 599/2 The subchondral layer of bone becomes sclerosed, hardened, and eburnated in an endeavour to form a new joint surface.
1957 J. C. Adams Outl. Fractures i. 19 Usually the overlying articular cartilage also dies, because its basal layers, normally nourished through vessels in the subchondral bone, are devitalised.
2011 Bone 48 639/2 The presence of a subchondral bone cyst..in the weight-bearing regions of joints is a characteristic bone adaptation that has been associated with OA [= osteoarthritis].
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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