Cartilage
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cartilage-221-1424304
title:
Cartilage
text:
Cartilage is a resilient and smooth type of connective tissue. It is a semi-transparent and non-porous type of tissue. It is usually covered by a tough and fibrous membrane called perichondrium. In tetrapods, it covers and protects the ends of long bones at the joints as articular cartilage, and is a structural component of many body parts including the rib cage, the neck and the bronchial tubes, and the intervertebral discs. In other taxa, such as chondrichthyans and cyclostomes, it constitutes
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Resilient and smooth elastic tissue present in animals
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cartilage
date created:
2003-01-08T19:03:05Z
date modified:
2024-09-13T20:34:19Z
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