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Do nutrients diffuse quickly through cartilage matrix but very poorly through solid bone matrix?
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Nutrients diffuse quickly through cartilage matrix but very poorly through solid bone matrix true or false?
False
How does cartilage survive without any blood vessels running through it?
Nutrients, oxygen, etc. diffuse from nearby blood vessels through the matrix of the cartilage to reach the chondrocytes residing in their lacunae.
What is the medium through which nutrients diffuse?
ground substance
How do nutrients get into your blood strem?
they diffuse through the lining of your intestine
How does fibrocartilage gets its nutrition?
Hyaline Cartilage and Articular Cartilage get their nutrients through synovial or perichondrium fluid. Fibrocartilage does not have these so it gets nutrients through blood capillaries.
The medium through which nutrients and other substances diffuse?
i think its Matrix
How does cartilage get oxygen as it does not contain capillaries?
It gets oxygen and nutrients through simple diffusion.
Why are capillaries the site of material exchange between the cells and blood?
The walls of capillaries are very thin allowing the nutrients of cells to diffuse through them. They facilitate the diffusion of nutrients to the body by passing them through their cell walls.
Is the nutrients travel through the deoxygenated blood to reach the body cell?
Nutrients and oxygen diffuse through the capillaries, due to diffusion.
What nourishes the fetus?
Nutrients and other needed materials diffuse from the mother's blood through the placenta which connects the fetus the the uterus lining.
What takes place as the blood goes through the capillaries?
The oxygen and other nutrients in the blood diffuse into the cells through osmosis, and then wastes and other harmful chemicals are diffused out.
When the chyme passes too quickly through the small intestines nutrients are what?
not absorbed
