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Just the bridge of your nose is bone (paired nasal bones). The tip of your nose is hyaline cartilage. The same stuff a shark's skeleton is made out of. Neat, huh?
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Why is your nose flexible?
Just the bridge of your nose is bone (paired nasal bones). The tip of your nose is hyaline cartilage. The same stuff a shark's skeleton is made out of.
What is the single most outstanding physical difference between bone and cartilage?
The hardness. Bone is stiff and inflexible and cartilage is flexible. Your ears and tip of your nose are made of cartilage.
Why do humans have cartilage on their ears and nose?
Cartilage is more flexible then bone, so it's better for the ears and nose.
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. :)
How is the nose connected?
The nose is connected to the nasal bone protrusion via flexible cartilage surrounded by tissue and covered in skin.
Is your nose made from bone?
Its front is made up of cartilages and back part is ethmoid bone
What is soft and flexible bone matter?
soft and flexible bone matterSoft and flexible bone matter is flexible bone matter. This is when a person's bones are easy to break.
What is the tissue called on the flexible tip of the nose?
There IS a nose bone, in fact it's called the nasal bone at the top of the nose. It's a short bone that doesn't extend the length of the nose. At the end of the nasal bone is where the cartilage starts. You can find anatomical pictures on google for a visual.
Is Cartilage a type of connective tissue that is more flexible than a bone?
Yes, it is. An example is your nose. Move the tip of your nose with your fingers. That's cartilage.Hope that helps! :D ;)
What use is cartilage?
It lets you move your ears and your nose even possibly without your hands. It's like a flexible bone.
What is the flexible tissue that support your nose?
Cartilage is the flexible tissue that supports your nose.
Does you nose grow when your dead?
The nose bone doesn't go anywhere when you die (I assume you mean after decomposition). The base of the nose is part of your skull and made of bone, but the bottom half, the tip, is made of cartilage. Cartilage will decompose as it is a tissue, not bone.
