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Bones develop from cartliage. Babies are born with a large amount of cartilage and more bones than adults. These bones eventually fuse together to form the normal number of adult bones. Much of the cartilage in babies grows into bone. Certain bone cells cause minerals to be deposited in the cartilage which makes it (bone) harder and stronger. Bone tissue begins to develop at the center of the cartilage, and blood vessels carry nutrients to the developing bone. As more bone tissue is formed, the bones grows longer. Eventually, the center of the bone is fully formed. A baby's bones are soft, but the gradually become harder and softer as more minerals are deposited. This hardening process is called ossification. As a child grows, new bone tissue is made between the head of the bone and its shaft in special areas called growth plates or growth zones. This is how we grow and get taller. Some cartilage remains at the ends of the bones to protect them. In other places, cartilage remains throughout life and does not turn into bone. This is the case with noses. Noses are shaped by cartilage--not bone.
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What is a difference between bone and cartilage. 1. bones are more flexible than cartilage 2. bones are harder than cartilage 3.bones are larger than cartilage?
Bones are of course harder
Is Cartilage more brittle than Bone?
Cartilage, as a rule, is the slowest healing tissue in the human body. The reason for this is the virtual absence of blood flow in this tissue. Most of the nutrition for cartilage comes from synovial fluid, the lubricating fluid in most of our joints. There are other types of cartilage in the body such as hyaline cartilage, forming the connection in the front of the rib cage. This type is also considered avascular, meaning without blood supply. Bones on the other hand heal much faster than most tissues because of their rich supply of blood. The blood carries the nessecary building blocks required in the healing process.
Tough supportive tissue that is softer than bone?
A connective tissue that is more flexible than bone that but that functions within the skeletal system is called cartilage. Cartilage can be found at the tip of your nose, or in your outer ear.
Do adults have more ribs than children?
Oh gosh no. A child has much more cartilage because a fetus has no bone this is to fit through the birth canal. It takes a child many years for their cartilage to become bone. This is why children have less broken bones than adults. They have not fully converged from cartilage to bone
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.
Why does bone heal more easily than cartilage?
Because bone is much harder than cartilage
Does Cartilage harder than bone?
No. It does not have the amount of calcium as bone.
What is a difference between bone and cartilage. 1. bones are more flexible than cartilage 2. bones are harder than cartilage 3.bones are larger than cartilage?
Bones are of course harder
Is it harder to break bone or cartilage?
it would be harder to brake bone because it is stronger and has more density of couse a bone
Why can you study bone and not cartilage?
Cartilage could be used to hold our selves together but cartilage is actually unformed bone and Cartilage also is very unstable if you bones so to speak were made of cartilage we would highly unstable and unable to walk like a baby almost
What is cartilige?
cartalidge is located at the top of your ear. The spot that is softer than a bone but harder than fat.
Is bone more primitive tissue than a cartilage?
Cartilage is a far more primitive tissue than bone
Much of an infant's skeleton is bone?
An infant's skeleton is actually mostly cartilage. If a fetus's skeleton was bone, childbirth would be much harder. As calcium deposits in that cartilage, it begins to convert to bone.
Is Cartilage more brittle than Bone?
Cartilage, as a rule, is the slowest healing tissue in the human body. The reason for this is the virtual absence of blood flow in this tissue. Most of the nutrition for cartilage comes from synovial fluid, the lubricating fluid in most of our joints. There are other types of cartilage in the body such as hyaline cartilage, forming the connection in the front of the rib cage. This type is also considered avascular, meaning without blood supply. Bones on the other hand heal much faster than most tissues because of their rich supply of blood. The blood carries the nessecary building blocks required in the healing process.
Is a sharks tooth cartilage or bone?
Teeth are teeth, neither cartilage or bone. But more similar to bone than cartilage.
What is an antonym for cartilage?
The opposite of Cartilage Are Ligaments because the cartilage is more flexible than bone.
Is cartilage less flexible than bone?
No, it is not. Bone is strong but it doesn't bend easily. Cartilage is more flexible.
