Cartilage

What is carttilage?
Cartilage is the main type of connective tissue seen throughout the body. It serves a variety of structural and functional purposes and exists in diff...
What is the purpose of the caritlage?
Hyaline, or articular, cartilage covers the ends of bones to create a low-friction environment and cushion at the joint surface. When cartilage in the...
What cartilage is the most flexible?
Elastic cartilage is histologically similar to hyaline cartilage but contains many yellow elastic fibers lying in a solid matrix. These fibers form bu...
How do cartilge and bone differ?
Cartilage is thin, avascular, flexible and resistant to compressive forces. Bone is highly vascularised, and its calcified matrix makes it very strong...
Is cartilage alive?
Hyaline cartilage is found in the nose, ears, trachea, parts of the larynx, and smaller respiratory tubes. Fibrous cartilage has the fewest cells so i...
What lives in lacuna of cartilage?
Cartilage. The cartilage cells or chondrocytes are contained in cavities in the matrix, called cartilage lacunae; around these, the matrix is arranged...