Meckel's cartilage

Meckel's cartilage
Meck·el's cartilage 'mek-əlz- n the cartilaginous bar of the embryonic mandibular arch of which the distal end ossifies to form the malleus and most of the rest disappears in development, with the part adjacent to the malleus being replaced by fibrous membrane comprising the sphenomandibular ligament and the connective tissue covering most of the remaining part ossifying to form much of the mandible J. F. Meckel the Younger see MECKEL-GRUBER SYNDROME

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a cartilaginous bar in the fetus around which the mandible develops. Part of Meckel's cartilage develops into the malleus (an ear ossicle) in the adult.
J. F. Meckel, the Younger (1781-1833), German anatomist

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