Exam 2 Slide show Skeletal Tissue (pt1)

Question 1

What are the functions of cartilage?

Answer 1

• Comprises parts of the skeleton where flexibility is required
• Articular surfaces
• Template for bone formation

Question 2

What are the two articular surfaces of cartilage?

Answer 2

Smooth and low friction

Question 3

The younger a person is, the _____ cartilage they have.

Answer 3

More

Question 4

What consists of a dense network of collagen fibers and elastic fibers embedded in a jelly-like ground substance of chondroitin sulfate

Answer 4

Cartilage

Question 5

What gives cartilage its strength?

Answer 5

Collagen fibers

Question 6

What gives cartilage its resilience?

Answer 6

Chondroitin sulfate

Question 7

Where do chondrocytes reside?

Answer 7

In lacunae

Question 8

Cartilage is capable of enduring more stress than either what?

Answer 8

Loose or dense connective tissue

Question 9

Most cartilage is covered by a dense, irregular connective tissue called

Answer 9

Perichondrium

Question 10

Does cartilage have blood vessels?

Answer 10

No and it ONLY has nerves in the perichondrium

Question 11

What are the three types of cartilage?

Answer 11

1. Hyaline cartilage
2. Fibrocartilage
3. Elastic Cartilage

Question 12

After becoming vasularized, the perichondrium becomes what?

Answer 12

Periosteum

Question 13

What obtains nutrients and dispose of wastes by diffusion

Answer 13

Chondrocytes

Question 14

What is the most abundant type of cartilage in the body?

Answer 14

Hyaline cartilage

Question 15

How does hyalin cartilage appear in the body?

Answer 15

As a bluish-white shiny substance

Question 16

Name the type of cartilage that has the strongest form of cartilage

Answer 16

fibrocartilage

Question 17

Name the type of cartilage that is the template for bone formation

Answer 17

hyaline cartilage

Question 18

Characterize cartilage with regard to: nerve supply, rate of growth, rate of healing, vascular supply

Answer 18

Has no nerves (except in perichondrium), grows slowly, poorly healing if heals at all, non-vascular

Question 19

How is diffusion in cartilage aided?

Answer 19

the chondrocytes are aided by the pumping action generated by compression of articular cartilage or flexion of elastic cartilage

Question 20

Name the type of cartilage that is Commonly disk shaped segment between bone

Answer 20

fibrocartilage

Question 21

Name the type of cartilage that forms articular surfaces

Answer 21

hyaline cartilage

Question 22

Name the type of cartilage that has the greatest tensile strength of the different forms of cartilage:

Answer 22

fibrocartilage

Question 23

Name the type of cartilage that lacks a perichondrium wherever it is found

Answer 23

fibrocartilage

Question 24

State the type of cartilage commonly found in the external ear and auditory canal

Answer 24

elastic cartilage

Question 25

Compare hyaline cartilage and fibrocartilage with regard to the existence and extent of a perichondrium

Answer 25

Hyaline cartilage has a perichondrium whereas the fibrocartilage does not