cartilage

Englisch

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] French cartilage, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin cartilāgō.

Pronunciation

• (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) IPA^(key): /ˈkɑːtɪlɪd͡ʒ/
• (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) IPA^(key): /ˈkɑɹtəlɪd͡ʒ/
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Nomen

cartilage (countable and uncountable, plural cartilages)

1. (anatomy) A type of dense, non-vascular connective tissue, usually found at the end of joints, the rib cage, the ear, the nose, in the throat and between intervertebral disks.

Synonyms

• gristle

Translations

dense connective tissue

• Afrikaans: kraakbeen
• Albanian: kërc
• Arabic: غُضْرُوف m (ḡuḍrūf)
• Armenian: աճառ (hy) (ačaṙ), կռճիկ (hy) (kṙčik)
• Asturian: cartílagu (ast) m
• Avar: цӏил (cʼil)
• Azeri: qığırdaq
• Bashkir: кимерсәк (kimersək)
• Basque: kurruska
• Belarusian: храсто́к m (xrastók), храшч m (xrašč)
• Bengali: উপাস্থি (upasthi), কোমলাস্থি (kōmolasthi)
• Bulgarian: хрущял (bg) m (hruštjal)
• Burmese: အရိုးနု (a.rui:nu.)
• Catalan: cartílag (ca) m
• Chechen: чохчам (čoxčam)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 軟骨／软骨 (jyun⁵ gwat¹), 软骨 (jyun⁵ gwat¹)

  Mandarin: 軟骨／软骨 (zh) (ruǎngǔ), 软骨 (zh) (ruǎngǔ)

• Czech: chrupavka (cs) f
• Danish: brusk c
• Dutch: kraakbeen (nl) n
• Esperanto: kartilago
• Estonian: kõhr
• Faroese: brósk n
• Finnish: rusto (fi)
• French: cartilage (fr) m
• Galician: cartilaxe (gl) f
• Georgian: ხრტილი (xrṭili)
• German: Knorpel (de) m
• Greek: χόνδρος (el) m (chóndros)

  Ancient: χόνδρος m (khóndros)

• Haitian Creole: katilaj
• Hebrew: סְחוּס (he) m (skhus)
• Hindi: उपास्थि f (upāsthi), कार्टिलेज (kārṭilej)
• Hungarian: porc (hu)
• Icelandic: brjósk (is) n
• Ido: kartilago (io)
• Indonesian: tulang rawan (id), rawan (id)
• Italian: cartilagine (it) f
• Japanese: 軟骨 (なんこつ, nankotsu)
• Kazakh: шеміршек (şemırşek)
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• Khmer: ឆ្អឹងខ្ចី (c’əŋ kcəy)
• Korean: 연골 (yeon'gol)
• Kyrgyz: кемирчек (kemircek)
• Lao: ດູກອ່ອນ (dūk ʼǭn)
• Latin: cartilago f
• Latvian: krimslis, skrimslis
• Lithuanian: kremzlė f
• Macedonian: ’рскавица f (’rskavica)
• Malay: rawan
• Maltese: qarquċa f
• Maori: pakaua, wheuangohe
• Mongolian: мөгөөрс (mn) (mögöörs)
• Navajo: ooshgę́ę́zh
• Norwegian: brusk m
• Occitan: cartilage
• Old Norse: brjósk n
• Persian: غضروف (fa) (ğozruf), کرجن (fa) (korjan)
• Polish: chrząstka (pl) f
• Portuguese: cartilagem (pt) f
• Quechua: k'apa
• Romanian: cartiláj (ro) n
• Russian: хрящ (ru) m (xrjašč)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: хрскавица f

  Roman: hrskavica (sh) f

• Sinhalese: කීකසය (kīkasaya), කෝමලාස්ථි (kōmalāsthi)
• Slovak: chrupavka f
• Slovene: hrustanec (sl) m
• Spanish: cartílago (es) m
• Swahili: gegedu
• Swedish: brosk (sv) n
• Tagalog: kartilago, malabuto
• Tajik: тағояк (taġoyak), шағал (tg) (šaġal)
• Tatar: кимерчәк (tt) (kimerçäk)
• Thai: กระดูกอ่อน (th) (grà-dùuk-ɔ̀ɔn)
• Turkish: kıkırdak (tr)
• Turkmen: gemirçek
• Ukrainian: хрящ m (xrjašč)
• Urdu: اپاستی (upāsti), کارٹلیج (kārṭilej)
• Uzbek: togay
• Vietnamese: sụn (vi)
• Volapük: kartilag
• Walloon: tinroxh (wa) m, tinroxhea m, gruzion (wa) m, gruziant (wa) m

Derived terms

• cartilaginoid
• cartilaginous

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French

Etymology

Borrowed from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin cartilāgō.

Pronunciation

• (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) IPA^(key): /kaʁtilaʒ/

Nomen

cartilage m (uncountable)

1. (anatomy) cartilage

Anagrams

• glacerait

External links

• “cartilage”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Old French

Etymology

First known attestation 1377-1377, Template:borrowing

Nomen

cartilage oblique singular, m (oblique plural cartilages, nominative singular cartilages, nominative plural cartilage)

1. (anatomy) cartilage