module 1 Flashcards
What is a joint?
Holds the bones together where the bones meet. It involves bone shape and allows for movement control
What tissue is cartilage?
A connective tissue
What is the composition of cartilage?
Collagen fibres in a ground substance, blood vessels do not penetrate the cartilage
What happens when joints are loaded?
More nutrients are diffused.
Two kinds of cartilage are?
Hyaline and fibrocartilage.
Hyaline cartilage characteristics are?
Barley visible collagen fibres, high water content.
What is the function of hyaline cartilage?
water = resist compression and have a smooth frictionless surface.
Where is hyaline cartilage found?
It moulds to the surface of bones where they articulate. For smooth frictionless movement.
What effects does hyaline cartilage have with age?
it degrades
Fibrocartilage characteristics?
Collagen fibres form bundles throughout the matrix. These align with stresses.
What is the function of fibrocartilage?
To reist compression and tension.
Where would you find fibrocartilage?
At articulations that experience both compression and tension(deepening of articular surfaces)
What does fibrocartilage do for articular surafces?
Acts as a shock absorber(distribute force over a wider area)
Do joints have an inorganic component?
No
Does cartilage have any nerve cells or blood vessels etc..?
No
Ligaments and tendons have what tissue?
Dense fibrous connective tissue
Ligaments and tendons are composed out of?
collagen/elastin
Ligaments and tendons function
resist tension
Ligaments connect to?
Bone
Function of ligaments?
restrict movement(away from themselves)
Ligaments have little
elastin
Tendons connect?
Muscle to bone