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Choose the correct statements with reference to hyaline cartilage.

  1. It is bluish-white translucent and glass-like cartilage
  2. Matrix shows collagen fibres and elastic fibres
  3. It forms embryonic endoskeleton in cyclostomes and adult cartilage fishes
  4. It is the strongest cartilage without perichondrium.

 

 

 

Option: 1

I, II and IV


Option: 2

II and III


Option: 3

II, III and IV

 


Option: 4

I and III


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Hyaline cartilage :

  • It is made up of the clear, large amount of translucent slightly elastic matrix having fewer fibres. 
  • It forms articular surface at the joints of long bones and is called articular cartilage. 
  • It also forms rings of trachea and bronchi, sternal parts of ribs, hyoid apparatus, nasal septum and part of the larynx. 
  • Hyaline cartilage forms most of the embryonic skeleton.
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