Quran Scientific Difficulty: Embryology

[Sama]

So the word used should be 'Ghurdoof' (cartilage) rather than 'Idhaam' (bones). Do you know if the word for bones encompasses cartilage too? That would immediately solve the issue.

Yes it does. Actually it's defined in arabic dictionaries as idham with specific characters i.e pliant, can be eaten,so The word adhm includes hard bones and soft cartilage.
 سنحتكم إلى معاجم اللغة العربية لنعرف هل -في لغة العرب- يعد الغضروف عظم؟ :

(المعجم الوسيط) : الغضروف : كل عظم لين رخص في أي موضع كان.
(المحيط في اللغة) : الغُضْرُوْفُ : كلُّ عَظْم رَخْصٍ.
(الصحاح للجوهري) : الغُرْضوفُ : ما لان من العظم، وهو الغُضْروفُ أيضاً.
(لسان العرب) : الغُضْرُوف : كلُّ عَظم رَخْص ليّن في أَيّ موضع كان.

http://www.baheth.info/all.jsp?term=%D8%BA%D8%B6%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%81

N.B:
Islam haters are the worst kind of ignorant liars out of blind hate.

[mclinkin94]

So the word used should be 'Ghurdoof' (cartilage) rather than 'Idhaam' (bones). Do you know if the word for bones encompasses cartilage too? That would immediately solve the issue.

Yes it does. Actually it's defined in arabic dictionaries as idham with specific characters i.e pliant, can be eaten,so The word adhm includes hard bones and soft cartilage.
 سنحتكم إلى معاجم اللغة العربية لنعرف هل -في لغة العرب- يعد الغضروف عظم؟ :

(المعجم الوسيط) : الغضروف : كل عظم لين رخص في أي موضع كان.
(المحيط في اللغة) : الغُضْرُوْفُ : كلُّ عَظْم رَخْصٍ.
(الصحاح للجوهري) : الغُرْضوفُ : ما لان من العظم، وهو الغُضْروفُ أيضاً.
(لسان العرب) : الغُضْرُوف : كلُّ عَظم رَخْص ليّن في أَيّ موضع كان.

http://www.baheth.info/all.jsp?term=%D8%BA%D8%B6%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%81

N.B:
Islam haters are the worst kind of ignorant liars out of blind hate.

Thank you very much Sama! That cleared it up.

So 'Ghurdoof' is a type of 'Idhaam' that is soft. So Idhaam therefore encompasses Ghurdoof. Just as Cartilage encompasses hyaline cartilage, for example.

Alhamdulilah and God bless you, Sama!

[Egyptian]

peace for all


I have a scientific question before elaborating the answers in the thread.....
the muscles of the embryo wrap a cartilage that as a whole has the same hardness or may be some of the cartilage harder than the others?

[mclinkin94]

peace for all


I have a scientific question before elaborating the answers in the thread.....
the muscles of the embryo wrap a cartilage that as a whole has the same hardness or may be some of the cartilage harder than the others?

The skeletal model of bone actually has a perichondrium which is very dense and this perichondrium is on the outskirts of the skeletal model of bone. The perichondrium is also on the cartilage that are joints.

So think of it as a skeletal 'model', and the inside is made up of hyaline cartilage with something to hold it there (perichondrium).

So, no its not necessarily harder than the others.