MICROANATOMY

Detailed explanation-1: -Cartilage is a strong, flexible connective tissue that protects your joints and bones. It acts as a shock absorber throughout your body. Cartilage at the end of your bones reduces friction and prevents them from rubbing together when you use your joints.

Detailed explanation-2: -Cartilage is a flexible connective tissue that differs from bone in several ways; it is avascular and its microarchitecture is less organized than bone.

Detailed explanation-3: -Cartilage is the firm, rubbery tissue that cushions your bones at the joints. It allows bones to glide over one another.

Detailed explanation-4: -The perichondrium is a dense layer of fibrous connective tissue that covers the surface of most of the cartilage in the body.

Detailed explanation-5: -What is cartilage made of? Cartilage a strong and smooth substance made up of “chondrocytes, ‘’ or specialized cartilage cells, that produce a matrix of collagen, proteoglycans (a special type of protein) and other non-collagenous proteins.