The three types of cartilage and their functions and locations
Elastic cartilage location
Your external ears (the parts of your ear that are outside your body). Your Eustachian tubes (the tube that carries sounds from your external ear into your head). Your larynx (your voice box).
Hyline cartilage location
At the ends of bones that form joints. Between your ribs. In your nasal passages.
Elastic cartilage function
It supports parts of your body that need to bend and move to function.
fibrocartilage location
The meniscus in your knee. In disks between the vertebrae in your spine. Supporting muscles, tendons and ligaments throughout your body.
Hayline Cartilage
The most common type of cartilage in your body.
Fibrocartilage
cartilage that contains fibrous bundles of collagen, such as that of the intervertebral disks in the spinal cord.
hayline cartilage function
support and flexibility.
Elastic cartilage
supports parts of your body that need to bend and move to function.
fibrocartilage function
supports, protects, absorbs shock