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Anatomy: Cartilage
Lecture 7: Cartilage, Bone, Skeletal System
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Hyaline Cartilage | Most abundant kind of cartilage Clear Matrix (Hyaline means glassy) Later replaced by bone Made faster than bone in early development |
| Where do you find Hyaline in Adults? | Larynx (voicebox) Respiratory Tubes Anterior ends of ribs (costal Cartilages) |
| Articular Cartilages | cover ends of bones in movable joints |
| Epiphyseal Plates | between shafts of young bones (growth plates) |
| Elastic Cartilage | More bendable and stretchy than hyaline cartilage occur in extracellular matrix |
| Fibrocartilage | resembles dense connective tissue in ligaments push me, pull you tissue that resists both compression AND tension lies near attachment to bone contain chondrocytes like other cartilage |
| Where can you find fibrocartilage? | pubic symphysis intervertebral disks (annulus fibrosus rings) Menisci of Knee |
| Chondrocytes | roundish cartilage cells in extracellular matrix of cartilage Secretes Matrix of cartilage |
| Hollow space in cartilage matrix filled by chondrocytes | Lacunae |
| Perichondrium | Means "around the cartilage" Acts as strong girdle growth membrane |
| Matrix of Cartilage | consists of fibers, ground substance, and large amount of tissue fluid ground substance makes cartilage stiff and springy, absorbs compressions |
| What makes cartilage different than bones, Connective Tissue, etc? | No Nerves or blood Vessels nutrients reach chondrocytes through diffusion from capillaries in perichondrium, easy because of high water concentration |
| Calcified Cartilage | in elderly and young growing skeleton becomes calcified, just degeneration of cartilage, not turning into bone |
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