- subchondral
- Beneath or below the cartilages of the ribs.
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sub·chon·dral -'kän-drəl adj situated beneath cartilage <\subchondral bone>* * *
sub·chon·dral (səb-konґdrəl) subcartilaginous (def. 1).
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