Histology of Cartilage - Medicine BM5 NLM1

Histology of Cartilage for BM5 NLM1.

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Select the statement which best identifies cartilage.
A firm, pliable, resilient, non-vascular connective tissue
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Select the statement that best identifies cartilage.
Forms the temporary skeleton of the fetus & the template for the growth of long bones
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Select the statement that best identifies the perichondrium.
A connective tissue layer that surrounds the outer surface of cartilage & is essential for growth
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What are chondroprogenitor cells?
Cartilage stem cells that lie in the inner layers of the perichondrium
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What are chondroblasts?
Highly active, oval shaped cells that synthesise & secrete the extra-cellular matrix
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What are chondrocytes?
Large, round shaped cells that lie in lacunae & maintain the extra-cellular matrix around them
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What is the role of proteoglycans in the cartilage ECM?
Provides resilience
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What substances give cartilage its tensile strength?
Collagen & elastic fibres
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True or false: Hyaline cartilage has a ground substance with a relatively high water content, and is tranlucent in it's fresh form?
True
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Where is hyaline cartilage most commonly found?
Major air pipes, articulating bone surfaces & fetal skeleton
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True or false: in both hyaline & elastic cartilage, the chondrocytes form nests?
True
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Where is elastic cartilage most often found?
Epiglottis, external ear & Eustachian tubes
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Where is fibrocartilage most often found?
Symphysis Pubis, intervertebral disks & site of some tendon-bone attachments
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In its fresh form, of what is fibrocartilage composed?
Dense regular connective tissue & hyaline cartilage
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Select the statement that correctly identifies a feature/features of fibrocartilage.
Durable with high tensile strength & resistance to compression
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From what does cartilage initially originate?
Mesenchymal tissue cells
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What are the two types of growth that cartilage can undergo?
Interstitial & Appositional
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Select the statement that best identifies cartilage.

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Forms the temporary skeleton of the fetus & the template for the growth of long bones

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Select the statement that best identifies the perichondrium.

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What are chondroprogenitor cells?

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What are chondroblasts?

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