Sentences with phrase «separated by cartilage»

In wrist scans, age is estimated by looking at 20 or so bones initially separated by cartilage, but which progressively move closer to one another until they fuse in the mature wrist.

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When a baby is born, neck vertebrae is «composed of separate portions of bone joined by cartilage, in other words, the baby's skeleton is still soft».

Furthermore, gill arches in the Ozarcus fossils were separated by small bits of cartilage found in some species of bony fish and their relatives but previously unknown in any living or extinct chondrichthyans.

Some joints are immovable, e.g., those that connect the bones of the skull, which are separated merely by short, tough fibers of cartilage.

Ball - and - socket joints, like those at the hip and shoulder, allow the greatest range of movement as the rounded end of one bone fits into the hollow or socket of another bone, separated by elastic cartilage.