单词 | yellow cartilage |
释义 | > as lemmasyellow cartilage g. Anatomy. Designating elastic tissue (connective tissue containing numerous elastic fibres, which is yellowish in colour), and structures containing elastic tissue, as yellow cartilage, yellow fibrous tissue, yellow tissue, etc. Cf. white tissue n. (b) at white adj. and n. Compounds 1g(d). ΚΠ 1824 in E. Milligan tr. F. Magendie Elem. Compend. Physiol. Appendix 485 The yellow elastic tissue of animals, in which the proportion of fatty matter is greater than in the tendons, presents the same phenomena. 1834 Lancet 29 Nov. 342/2 This property, I say, resides in the elastic tissue, in the yellow fibres composing the middle coats of the arteries. 1861 J. Leidy Elem. Treat. Human Anat. iii. 175 It [sc. elastic tissue] composes the yellow ligaments of the vertebral arches. 1906 G. Mann Chem. Proteids xi. 557 In ordinary tendons, but also in yellow tendons, such as the ligamentum nuchæ, white fibrous tissue occurs as fibrils along with yellow fibrous tissue, composed of elastin, and along with mucin. 1910 F. J. S. Gorgas Questions & Answers Curriculum Dental Student 326 Yellow cartilage has round or oval cells containing nuclei and nucleoli. 1966 S. Seifter & P. M. Gallop in H. Neurath Proteins (ed. 2) IV. xx. 179 Elastic tissue, like elastin, has a yellow appearance and is often referred to as ‘yellow connective tissue’. 2009 J. Clancy & A. J. McVicar Physiol. & Anat. Nurses & Healthcare Practitioners (ed. 3) ii. 56/2 There are four types of true connective tissue: white fibrous tissue, yellow elastic tissue, loose areolar connective tissue, and adipose connective tissue. < as lemmas |
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