Meckel's cartilage is the bilaterally paired, rod-like, cartilaginous ventral component of the lower jar, or ventral mandibular arch. It is typically resorbed in adults. [ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3693112 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meckel's_cartilage ]
Term information
- AAO:0000289
- SCTID:308773009
- ZFA:0001205
- MA:0001580
- FMA:295784
- VHOG:0000249
- Wikipedia:Meckel's_cartilage
- XAO:0003085
- EHDAA:7997
- TAO:0001205
- EMAPA:17635
- EHDAA2:0001072
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Meckel's cartilage is the bilaterally paired, rod-like, cartilaginous ventral component of the lower jar, or ventral mandibular arch. It is typically resorbed in adults.
Pharyngeal arch cartilage that is the cartilaginous embryonic component of the lower jaw, or ventral mandibular arch. It develops into the endochondral articular and retroarticular bones. Meckel's cartilage is paired.[TAO]
Paired, rod-shaped elements that extend the length of the mandible and lie between the dentaries and the angulosplenials. Can be reduced to various extent in adults.[AAO]
primary mandinle
Meckels cartilage
ventral mandibular cartilage
cartilago arcus pharyngei primi
In all jawed vertebrates, including fish, the first pharyngeal arch generates the jaw apparatus. The neural crest cells of this arch migrate to form Meckel's cartilage, the precursor of the jaw.[well established][VHOG]
functional lower jaw of Elasmobranchii and Holocephali, the embryonic lower jaw of other gnathostomous vertebrates