subchondral

English

Etymology

sub- +‎ chondral

Adjective

subchondral (not comparable)

1. (bone) Lying under articular cartilage and containing marrow.
   • 1880 Victor Cornil, Louis Antoine Ranvier, Edward Oram Shakespeare, and J. Henry Clay Simes in A Manual of Pathological Histology, page 236,

     The subchondral osseous layer which contains the embryonic marrow is thin

   • 2006 Juergen Maeurer and Martin Breitenseher in Imaging Strategies for the Knee, page 29,

     Chondral and osteochondral fractures involve traumatic damage to the cartilage and the subchondral bone

Derived terms

• subchondrally