a. [f. Gr. χόνδρ-ος cartilage + -OID.] Resembling cartilage.
1847–9. Todd, Cycl. Anat., IV. 138/2. Its texture … often acquires a chondroid appearance.
1877. Roberts, Handbk. Med. (ed. 3), I. 275. Chondroid or Cartilaginous.
