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