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No. Cartilage is not another name for bone. It is hard tissue like bone, but is mostly made of collagen fibers, whereas bone is mostly made of extracellular matrix that contains calcium and phosphorus.
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What cartilage articulates with another bone or bone process?
Articular cartilage
What is the cartilage articulates with another bone or bone process called?
It is just called an articular cartilage. The type of cartilage is fibrocartilage.
What is the name of the cartilage projecting just posterior to the hyoid bone?
triticeal cartilage
What type of cartilage is attached to the sternum?
The name of the cartilage is coastal cartilage.
What is the name of the structure made of bone and cartilage separating the nostrils?
Cartilage of septum
What is present in bone either bone or cartilage?
Bone starts out as cartilage and as it matures it becomes bone...
Name the material which covers the ends of bone in a synovial joint?
cartilage
What cartilage articulates from bone to bone?
hyaline cartilage is located in between bones
The articular cartilage of a typical long bone is composed of what type of cartilage?
Thearticular cartilage of a typical long bone is composed of the Hyaline cartilage.
What are fish skeletons made of - bone and cartiladge?
Sharks, rays and ratfish have cartilage but its not sharks. Boney fish (like their name suggests) have bone in the mix - but they still have a lot of cartilage.
What is another name for Cartilage?
Chrondocyte
Is a sharks tooth cartilage or bone?
Teeth are teeth, neither cartilage or bone. But more similar to bone than cartilage.
