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tracheal cartilage

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tracheal cartilage
n.
Any of the incomplete rings of hyaline cartilage forming the wall of the trachea. Also called tracheal ring.


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5) Evidence of tracheal cartilage development can be noted during weeks 9 to 10.
Prepared by a patented manufacturing process from purified Bovine Tracheal Cartilage of New Zealand Origin, CoII2 contains 55-65% type II collagen and 12-15% GAG, most of which is chondroitin sulphate.
Three tension-relieving sutures (4-0 polydioxanone on a tapered needle) were placed on the ventral and lateral aspects of the trachea, each encircling a tracheal cartilage proximal and distal to the anastomosis site.
 
 
 
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