Cartilage is valid Scrabble Word

Is cartilage a scrabble word?
Official Scrabble Players Dictionary YES
Official Tournament and Club Word List YES
Collins Scrabble Words YES
Is cartilage valid Words with Friends?
Words with Friends YES

9 letters word
12 points in Scrabble
15 points in WWF

Definitions for CARTILAGE in dictionary:

NOUN:

gristle, a firm pearly white substance forming the embryonic skeleton of vertebrates (temporary cartilage) converted into bone in adults
firm, flexible connective tissue found in various forms in the larynx and respiratory tract, in structures such as the external ear, and in the articulating surfaces of joints. It is more widespread in the infant skeleton, being replaced by bone during growth.
a particular structure made of cartilage
strong flexible tissue forming part of the skeleton
A translucent, elastic tissue; gristle.
tough elastic tissue; mostly converted to bone in adults

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

a usually translucent somewhat elastic tissue that composes most of the skeleton of vertebrate embryos and except for a small number of structures (as some joints, respiratory passages, and the external ear) is replaced by bone during ossification in the higher vertebrates

Words related to CARTILAGE

cartilages13 cartilaginous16 chondrus14

Words that contain CARTILAGE

cartilages13 fibrocartilage22 fibrocartilages23

How to use CARTILAGE in a sentence

The usual mode of guiding them is by a small cord attached to the cartilage of the nose.
This peculiar change of colour in the affected cartilage is of great importance to the surgeon.
The thumb is pressed into the coronet over the seat of the cartilage, when, in place of the elasticity we should normally meet with, we have the solid resistance offered by bone.
And yet that same cartilage, with the foot removed from the ground, is as pleasantly yielding to pressure of the thumb as the most exacting of us could wish for.
As is only to be expected, the first noticeable hardening of the cartilage is to be found near the normal bone.
We may thus look for it more particularly in the lower portions of the cartilage.
In other words, the normal outward and inward movements of the cartilage are enormously reduced.
Amongst the females whom I observed was a girl about ten years old with a large bone stuck through the cartilage of her nose.
Some of the natives wore feathers in their hair, and all had fish bones thrust through the cartilage of the nose, which gave them a ferocious aspect.
A hole is then made with a suitable implement through the cartilage between the nasal passages, and forward rather than backward in the cartilage.

In front its attachment is to the cartilage at the pit of the stomach.
Turn the ears inside out, the nostrils, lips, and feet, removing all cartilage and flesh.
Such earrings as we saw were worn in the upper cartilage of the ear.

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