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Six example sentences with cartilage, each labelled with its topic.
Runners who ramp up mileage too fast can wear the cartilage under the kneecap down until stairs hurt.
Fitness
A surgeon trimmed the torn cartilage in the shoulder rather than replacing the joint, and the patient walked out that evening.
Medicine
A shark's whole skeleton is cartilage, which is why so few complete fossils of early species survive.
Science
Simmer chicken feet for hours and the cartilage melts into gelatin, giving the broth its rich and sticky body.
Cooking
The rookie missed the playoffs after tearing cartilage in his knee on a hard landing under the basket.
Basketball
Researchers printed a scaffold of living cells that grew into cartilage shaped exactly like a patient's outer ear.
Technology
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