‖ perichondrium Anat.
(pɛrɪˈkɒndrɪəm)
[mod.L., f. Gr. περί around + χόνδρος cartilage; after periosteum. In mod.F. périchondre.]
A membrane, consisting of fibrous connective tissue, enveloping the cartilages except at the joints.
| 1741 Monro Anat. Bones (ed. 3) 51 Cartilages are..covered with a Membrane named Perichondrium, which is a-kin to the Periosteum of the Bones. 1756 Gentl. Mag. XXVI. 516 To take them off with a cutting instrument, destroying the periosteum and perichondrium. 1881 Mivart Cat 287 The mucous membrane..is inseparably united with the periosteum and perichondrium of the different parts. |
Hence
periˈchondrial a., surrounding or investing a cartilage; of or pertaining to the perichondrium;
‖ perichonˈdritis, inflammation of the perichondrium (hence
perichonˈdritic a., pertaining to or affected with perichondritis);
‖ perichonˈdroma,
-ome, a tumour growing from the perichondrium.
| 1839–47 Todd Cycl. Anat. III. 1005/2 *Perichondrial lining of the cartilaginous passages. 1878 Bell Gegenbaur's Comp. Anat. 451 By investing or growing around the cartilage, forming a perichondrial ossification. |
| 1846 tr. Hasse's Descr. Diseases Circ. & Resp. ii. v. 276 No difference is observable between this disease and *perichondritis. 1880 A. Flint Princ. Med. 292 Inflammation of the tissues immediately surrounding the laryngeal cartilages is called laryngeal perichondritis. |
| 1875 Jones & Siev. Pathol. Anat. (ed. 2) 142 Carilaginous tumours arise..more rarely on the outside, under or from the periosteum (*perichondroma). |