noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
damage
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He left by stretcher with cartilage damage .
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Wearing the Lord of the Isles tartan, he used a crook to support the knee recently operated on for cartilage damage .
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The diagnosis could worsen if specialists decide he needs surgery on knee ligament or cartilage damage .
operation
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Peter Nicholas will be out of the Chelsea team for a month after a cartilage operation yesterday.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Had it landed, the blow would have crushed the cartilage and killed him instantly.
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It has somewhat toughened and dark flesh, coarse skin, and a somewhat hardened breastbone cartilage . 6.
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It has tender meat; soft, pliable, smooth-textured skin; and flexible breastbone cartilage . 3.
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Pull meat off ducks and remove any skin, cartilage , or bone.
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Pulsing flesh, exposed cartilage and bone fastened to mattresses shoved against hospital walls.
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Such buds containing re-aggregated cells do not develop normally but they can form jointed cartilage elements and sometimes very good-looking digit-like structures.
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There were also floating bits of cartilage running round the knee.
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They are among the most primitive on bony fish, though their skeleton consists largely of cartilage .