How to Use synovial fluid in a Sentence

synovial fluid

noun
  • Where the two bones of the finger meet, a little lake of synovial fluid keeps them from grinding on each other.
    Veronique Greenwood, New York Times, 29 Mar. 2018
  • The bones in the MCP joint touch and separate all the time, leading to reduced pressure in the synovial fluid trapped in the spaces, which in turn forms bubbles.
    Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 29 Mar. 2018
  • The substance is naturally found in many areas of the human body, including the skin, eyes, and synovial fluid of the joints.
    Cristina Montemayor, Men's Health, 29 June 2022
  • But the problem is the drugs are cleared fairly quickly, because there’s an efficient drainage system for the joint’s synovial fluid.
    Megan Thielking, STAT, 3 Apr. 2018
  • Joints are wrapped in a capsule of connective tissue that secretes synovial fluid as a lubricant when the joints are moved.
    Bryant Stamford, The Courier-Journal, 12 Nov. 2021
  • The authors think that the peptidoglycan remains in synovial fluid after the pathogen is gone.
    Linda Carroll, NBC News, 18 June 2019
  • There's a liquid called synovial fluid that acts as lubricant between your joints and the fluid has all types of gas in it, like oxygen, nitrogen, and carbon dioxide.
    Noelle Devoe, Seventeen, 26 Oct. 2017
  • The event was simply the sound of bubbles in the synovial fluid between our joints collapsing, researchers concluded, the result of something called cavitation.
    Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 29 Mar. 2018
  • Instead cartilage gets help from what experts call dynamic loading—putting stress or weight on the joint, which causes nutrient-carrying synovial fluid to flow in and out.
    Claudia Wallis, Scientific American, 1 June 2022
  • This is a common condition in which the knee’s natural lubricant, called synovial fluid, diminishes with age, resulting in painful friction of the knee joints.
    Joyce Wiswell For The Knee Institute, Detroit Free Press, 14 Mar. 2018
  • This gas comes from a lubricant inside your joints known as synovial fluid—which contains oxygen, nitrogen, and carbon dioxide—that helps give nutrients to the cartilage in your joints to help them glide smoothly.
    Demetria Wambia, SELF, 17 Feb. 2022
  • But that theory was deflated recently by the discovery that bubbles in our synovial fluid persist even after a good cracking.
    Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 29 Mar. 2018
  • Osteoarthritis is chronic joint inflammation that causes damage to articular cartilage – which covers and protects the ends of bones – as well as changes to synovial fluid and narrowing of the joint space.
    Kim Campbell Thornton, sacbee, 30 May 2018
  • Joint supplements help lubricate achy joints by supporting synovial fluid, a crucial substance that naturally occurs in the body.
    Dallas News, 24 Jan. 2023
  • The synergistic blend of ingredients work to support synovial fluid viscosity as well as normal cartilage flexibility.
    The Salt Lake Tribune, 17 Aug. 2022

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