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  • Title: Joint lubrication.
    Author: McCutchen CW.
    Journal: Bull Hosp Jt Dis Orthop Inst; 1983; 43(2):118-29. PubMed ID: 6317095.
    Abstract:
    The fine-pored, easily compressed articular cartilage provides animal joints with self-pressurized hydrostatic (weeping) lubrication. The solid skeletons of the cartilages press against each other, but so lightly that their rubbing is lubricated successfully by synovial fluid--a boundary lubricant too weak to lubricate ordinary bearings.
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