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Bones and Skeletal Tissue
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Anatomy
Undergraduate 1
10/01/2012

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Term

 

Skeletal Cartilage

Definition

-No nerve or blood vessels

-surrounded by dense irregular connective tissue

or the Perichondrium

 

Term
Hyaline Cartilage
Definition

 

 

-Collegen fibers only, most abundant type

-Articular, costar, respitory, nasal cartilage

Term

 

 

Elastic Cartilage

Definition

 

 

-contains elastic fibers

-External ear and epiglottis

Term

 

 

Fibrocartilage

Definition

 

 

-Thick collagen fibers, great tensile strength

-Menisci of knee, vertebral discs

Term

 

Appositional Growth

Definition

 

-Cells secrete matrix on edge of existing cartilage - grow in length

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