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Examples of fibrocartilage
fibrocartilage
These cells typically differentiate into fibrocartilage and rarely form hyaline cartilage.
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You may have damaged the articular disc, a thin, oval plate of fibrocartilage in the wrist.
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It is found in tendons, skin, artery walls, cornea, the endomysium of myofibrils, fibrocartilage, and the organic part of bones and teeth.
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Hyaline cartilage injury often results in the formation of the scar tissue fibrocartilage or even new bone formation leading to growth impairment or osteoarthritis.
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Cartilage is classified in three types, elastic cartilage, hyaline cartilage and fibrocartilage, which differ in the relative amounts of these three main components.
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- Cartilage that is largely composed of fibers like those in ordinary connective tissue
- White fibrocartilage consists of a mixture of white fibrous tissue and cartilaginous tissue in various proportions. It owes its flexibility and toughness to the former of these constituents, and its elasticity to the latter. ...
- Tissue consisting of elements of cartilage and of fibrous tissue. This may be a normal anatomical structure, such as certain intra-articular structures (menisci, triangular fibrocartilage at the wrist, or temporo-mandibular joint, or the symphysis pubis), or may constitute the repair tissue ...
- In nonsynovial joints, one of three types of connective tissue that joins the involved bones. Fibrocartilage (symphyses secondary cartilaginous joints) is found in the intervertebral discs with a fluid-filled central cavity, and in the pubis, the front arch of the pelvis, with a hollow central ...
- The type of cartilage made up of parallel, thick, compact bundles, separated by narrow clefts containing typical cartilage cells (chondrocytes).
- L. " + cartilago = gristle; a type of cartilage with many collagen fibres.
