hyaline cartilage

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   translucent cartilage that is common in joints and the respiratory passages; forms most of the fetal skeleton

   Broadercartilage

Questions about hyaline cartilage

What does hyaline cartilage mean?

hyaline cartilage means "translucent cartilage that is common in joints and the respiratory passages; forms most of the fetal skeleton".

Is hyaline cartilage a common word?

hyaline cartilage is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.