Medical Dictionary
elastic cartilage
noun
Medical Definition of ELASTIC CARTILAGE
: a yellowish flexible cartilage having the matrix infiltrated in all directions by a network of elastic fibers and occurring chiefly in the external ear, eustachian tube, and some cartilages of the larynx and epiglottis
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