Difference between revisions of "Cartilage"
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#Fibrocartilage. | #Fibrocartilage. | ||
#Elastic cartilage. | #Elastic cartilage. | ||
==Hyaline cartilage== | |||
Features:<ref name=Ref_EH2_178>{{Ref EH2|178}}</ref> | |||
*Blue-white extra-cellular matrix -- '''key feature'''. | |||
*Spherical nucleus. | |||
*Prominent nucleolus. | |||
*Lacunae. | |||
*Clear cytoplasm. | |||
==See also== | ==See also== | ||
Revision as of 02:34, 31 December 2010
Cartilage is a type of connective tissue that does not commonly come across the pathologist's desk.
It comes in three flavours:[1]
- Hyaline cartilage.
- Fibrocartilage.
- Elastic cartilage.
Hyaline cartilage
Features:[2]
- Blue-white extra-cellular matrix -- key feature.
- Spherical nucleus.
- Prominent nucleolus.
- Lacunae.
- Clear cytoplasm.
See also
References
- ↑ Young, Barbara; Lowe, James S.; Stevens, Alan; Heath, John W.; Deakin, Philip J. (2000). Wheaters Functional Histology (4th ed.). Churchill Livingstone. pp. 173-5. ISBN 978-0004881973.
- ↑ Cormack, David H. (2001). Essential Histology (2nd ed.). Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. pp. 178. ISBN 978-0781716680.