The biological process by which other tissues transform into cartilage, or the formation of cartilage in the body.
From 'cartilago' (Latin for cartilage) plus '-fication' (from Latin -ficatio, meaning 'the act of making'), describing a biological transformation process.
Cartilaginification is a mouthful, but it describes something happening in your body right now—your skeleton is constantly remodeling itself, with some bone becoming cartilage and vice versa, a process biologists call 'cartilaginification' when tissues become gristly.
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