CHAPTEE V 



THE CONNECTIVE TISSUES (continued) 



CARTILAGE, BONE, TEETH, BLOOD 



Cartilage. 



CARTILAGE is popularly termed gristle. It may be divided into two 

 chief kinds : Hyaline cartilage ; here the matrix or ground substance 

 is clear and free from fibres : Fibro-cartilage ; here the matrix is per- 



-a 



FIG. 74. Section of articular cartilage, a, Group of two cells ; b, group of four cells ; d, protoplasm of 

 cell with e, fatty granules ; c, nucleus. (After Schiifer.) 



vaded with connective-tissue fibres; when these are of the white 

 variety, the tissue is white fibre -cartilage ; when they are of the yellow 

 or elastic variety, the tissue is yellow or elastic Jibro-cartilage. 



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