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Cartilage is the hard substance that the body uses to connect bones together. It also allows joints to move smoothly and protects against shocks to the The main purpose of cartilage is to create a place on which bones can form when they are first created. It also protects the places where bones rub against each other...
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simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cartilage
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Human cartilage comes in three distinct types: fibrocartilage, elastic cartilage and hyaline cartilage. Cartilage is probably most famous for most people as a result of its replacement for a bone-based skeletal structure in sharks, but humans cannot live without cartilage either.
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The main purpose of cartilage is to keep your bones from rubbing fragments off of each other
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Author: trina Text: What is the purpose of cartilage in the human body? Response #: 1 of 1 Author: profbill Text: First, cartilage is produced in the human fetus where bones will later form. And then, as the fetus grows, bone replaces cartilage in a process called ossification ("the making of bone").
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Cartilage is used to connect bones together. It also allows the joints between the body to move easily and smoothly.
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Adult hyaline articular cartilage is progressively mineralised at the junction between cartilage and bone. It is then termed ''articular calcified cartilage''. A mineralisation front advances through the base of ... MAIN PURPOSE ... ; The main purpose of cartilage is to provide a framework upon which bone deposition could begin.
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www.seattleluxury.com/encyclopedia/entry/cartilage
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Severe allergic response was observed against irradiated cartilage, and the implant material was resorbed completely in most cases. CONCLUSION: ... Gore-Tex can also be used for this purpose. Irradiated cartilage, on the other hand, appears not to be a suitable material for medialization laryngoplasty...
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www.medscape.com/medline/abstract/15933511
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Cartilage has an extremely poor capacity to heal, which has lead to intensive research into biomaterials and tissue engineering for the purpose of regenerating cartilage in vivo. ... Healthy cartilage autografts often do not integrate with the adjacent cartilage, suggesting that cartilage is rarely capable of healing even...
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www.medscape.com/medline/abstract/17822151
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These streaming potentials apparently serve a purpose in cartilage similar to that in bone, and, along with mechanical strain, lead to signal transduction that is capable of stimulating chondrocyte synthesis of matrix components.
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