Three types of Cartilage (UPDATED)
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What is elastic cartilage?
Its found in areas that need flexibility such as the outer ear and epiglottis
where is hyaline cartilage?
between tips of ribs and bones of sternum; covering bone surfaces at synovial joints, supporting larynx, trachea, and bronchi, forming part of nasal septum
What is fibrocartilage?
it is highly compressible and forms the disks between the vertebrae of the spinal column
What is hyaline cartilage?
makes our first skeletal framework (appositional growth, endochondral ossification, intramembranous ossification)