subchondral

English

Etymology

From sub- +‎ chondral.

Adjective

subchondral (not comparable)

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

     The subchondral osseous layer which contains the embryonic marrow is thin

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

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

Derived terms

• subchondrally