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[Gr. &?; a
grain (of wheat or spelt), cartilage.] (Min.) A
fluosilicate of magnesia and iron, yellow to red in color, often
occurring in granular form in a crystalline limestone.


||Chon`dro*ga*noi"de*a (?), n.
[NL., fr. Gr. &?; cartilage + NL. ganoidei. See
Ganoid.] (Zoöl.) An order of ganoid
fishes, including the sturgeons; -- so called on account of their
cartilaginous skeleton.


Chon"dro*gen (?), n. [Gr. &?;
cartilage + -gen.] (Physiol. Chem.) Same as
Chondrigen.


Chon`dro*gen"e*sis (?), n. [Gr. &?;
cartilage + genesis.] (Physiol.) The
development of cartilage.


Chon"droid (?), a. [Gr. &?;
cartilage + -oid.] Resembling cartilage.


Chon*drol"o*gy (?), n. [Gr. &?;
cartilage + -logy: cf. F. chondrologie.]
(Anat.) The science which treats of cartilages.
Dunglison.


||Chon*dro"ma (?), n.; pl.
Chondromata (#). [NL., fr. Gr. &?; cartilage +
-oma.] A cartilaginous tumor or growth.


Chon*drom"e*ter (?), n.


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