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://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meckel's_cartilage http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3693112 ]
Synonyms: primary mandinle Meckels cartilage ventral mandibular cartilage cartilago arcus pharyngei primi
Term information
- AAO:0000289
- FMA:295784
- EHDAA:7997
- TAO:0001205
- SCTID:308773009
- Wikipedia:Meckel's_cartilage
- MA:0001580
- VHOG:0000249
- EHDAA2:0001072
- XAO:0003085
- EMAPA:17635
- ZFA:0001205
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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]
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