ELASTIC CARTILAGE


Meaning of ELASTIC CARTILAGE in English

noun

: a yellowish flexible cartilage having the matrix infiltrated in all directions by a network of elastic fibers and occurring chiefly in the external ear, eustachian tube, and certain cartilages of the larynx and epiglottis

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