Usually means: Connective tissue between ribs, sternum.
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  1. costal cartilage: Vocabulary.com
  2. costal cartilage: Wordnik
  3. Costal cartilage: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  4. costal cartilage: Dictionary.com
  5. Costal cartilage: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  6. costal cartilage: Rhymezone
  7. costal cartilage: FreeDictionary.org
  8. costal cartilage: Mnemonic Dictionary
  9. costal cartilage: TheFreeDictionary.com
  10. costal cartilage: Wiktionary

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  1. costal cartilage: Encyclopedia

Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. costal cartilage: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. National MCH Center for Child Death Review (No longer online)
  5. costal cartilage: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (costal cartilage)

noun:  (anatomy) One of the bars of hyaline cartilage, found at the anterior ends of the ribs, that serve to prolong the ribs forward and contribute to the elasticity of the walls of the thorax.

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