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Meaning of menisco



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Danilo Enrique Noreña Benítez

menisco
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They are crescent-shaped fibrocartilage found in various joints of the body. The most well-known are those of the knees and serve as cushions or cushions. They are also found on the wrists, the ends of the collarbone and in the ribs.

  



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Felipe Lorenzo del Río

From Greek meniskos, diminutive of menes, lunite, small moon. It is a cartilage with this shape or the disc, present in our joints, as in the knee, which gives stability and cushions the bone shocks of the joint.

  










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