FIBRO-CARTILAGE 



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white fibro-cartilage looks very like fibrous tissue, but its cells are car- 

 tilage-, not tendon-, cells (fig. 57). They are rounded or bluntly angular 



FIG. 57. WHITE FIBRO-CARTILAGE FROM AN INTERVERTEBRAL DISK, HUMAN. 

 (Highly magnified.) 



The concentric lines around the cells indicate the limits of deposit of successive capsules. 

 One of the cells has a forked process which extends beyond the hyaline area surrounding 

 the cell, amongst the fibres of the general matrix. 



and surrounded by a concentrically striated area of clear cartilage- 

 matrix. In some parts of the intervertebral disk many of the cells are 

 branched, and may be looked upon as transitional forms to connective- 

 tissue corpuscles. 



