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chondrification

 [kon″drĭ-fĭ-ka´shun]
conversion into cartilage.
Miller-Keane Encyclopedia and Dictionary of Medicine, Nursing, and Allied Health, Seventh Edition. © 2003 by Saunders, an imprint of Elsevier, Inc. All rights reserved.

chon·dri·fi·ca·tion

(kon'dri-fi-kā'shŭn),
Conversion into cartilage.
[G. chondros, cartilage, + L. facio, to make]
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chon·dri·fi·ca·tion

(kon'dri-fi-kā'shŭn)
Conversion into cartilage.
[G. chondros, cartilage, + L. facio, to make]
Medical Dictionary for the Health Professions and Nursing © Farlex 2012

chondrification

A change to CARTILAGE.
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The chondrification of the cricoids cartilage is well advanced than that of the thyroid cartilages and thyroid cartilages chondrify earlier to arytenoids.
The Mesenchymal condensation of arytenoids and epiglottic cartilages is seen at 16 weeks of gestation which starts chondrification at 12 weeks and 19 weeks of gestation respectively.
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