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The human ear (the bit that sticks out of the side of your head) is made of cartilage. However, inside the ear (in the middle hear behind the eardrum) there are 3 bones (the stirrup, the hammer and the anvil) made of bone.
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What do ligaments and cartilage do?
ligaments connect bone to bone cartilage is a connective tissue
What bone in your ear makes it bendable?
The external ear itself has no bones, only cartilage.
What kind of bone is your outer ear and the tip of your nose made up of?
Thats not bone. The outer ear and tip of the nose is made of something called cartilage. When you are born, most of your body is made of cartilage. Over your childhood, cartilage fuses into bones, this is also why babies and young children are more flexible that grown adults. Some parts of your body, such your nose and your ear, never change into bone, and are forever cartilage. :)
What is the cartiliage?
cartilage is not bone it is the skeleton of a shark the shark's body's skeleton is made of cartilage the top of your ear is made of cartilage
Can you break your ear cartlidge?
all cartilage can shatter. But dont worry,Theres LESS chance in getting the nose cartilage to shatter.
How does our ear keep its shape?
The ear has cartilage, a soft, flexible, bone-like structure. That's what keeps it's shape.
What is the smalest bone?
The smallest bone in the human skeleton is the "Ear Loave" bone. it is called the 'stirrup' bone and is located whithin your ear loave which is were you would normally have your ear pearced.
Is the human ear considered a bone?
There are three bones in the human ear, and you need all three to hear. Besides that, there is only cartilage. Cartilage is a firm, elastic, flexible type of connective tissue of a translucent whitish or yellowish color, like gristle. But, no, the human ear is not condidered a bone.
Does cartilage have a flexible bone?
Cartilage does not contain bones nor is bone. Cartilage is soft to moderately hard tissue that makes your ear lobes, tips of your nose, joints between bones, and more more objects in your body.
What is the difference between bone cells and cartilage cells?
bones are hard, cartilage are soft and bendable , eg your ear, nose..
What kind of bone is not connected with another bone?
You have a tiny bone in your ear that is not connected to any other bone in the skeletal system.
Does a shark have any bone?
I believe the shark is made up completely of cartilage, such as your ear. SuperSlasher
