See Also: chondrolysis(medicine)

fenny (iou) and chondrolysis (medicine)


fenny (iou)



fenny adjective1. OE.
[from FEN noun1 + -Y1.]
Of the Nature of a fen; boggy, swampy. OE.
Watsonia Crowinstown Lake..has a fenny margin..but is becoming acid on the west side.
b. Muddy, dirty. OE-M17.
Inhabiting, growing, or produced in a fen. Now only of plants. M16.
Shakespeare Macbeth Fillet of a fenny snake, In the cauldron boil and bake.

chondrolysis (medicine)


chondrolysis


Disappearance of articular cartilage as the result of disintegration or dissolution of the cartilage matrix and cells.