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Chapter-06 Cartilage

BOOK TITLE: Textbook of Human Histology

Author
1. Singh Inderbir
ISBN
9788180618093
DOI
10.5005/jp/books/10913_6
Edition
5/e
Publishing Year
2006
Pages
5
Author Affiliations
1. 52, Sector 1, Rohtak, Haryana, India
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Abstract

This chapter discusses various aspects of cartilage, a tissue that forms the skeletal basis of some parts of the body such as the auricle of the ear and the lower part of the nose. Some features of cartilage cells and of the matrix are cartilage cells, ground substance, and collagen fibers. Distribution of hyaline cartilage hyaline cartilage is distributed in costal cartilages, articular cartilage, the walls of the trachea and large bronchi, and parts of the nasal septum. Fibrocartilage is most conspicuous in secondary cartilaginous joints or symphyses. These include the joints between bodies of vertebrae, the pubic symphysis, and the manubriosternal joint. The wall of the medial part of the auditory tube is made of elastic cartilage and the apical part of the arytenoid cartilage contains elastic fibers but the major portion of it is hyaline. The presence of cartilage canals, through which blood vessels may enter cartilage, contains a small artery surrounded by numerous venules and capillaries. Cartilage cells receive their nutrition by diffusion from vessels in the perichondrium or in cartilage canals.

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