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What cartilage cells are found in Lacunae?
Osteocytes
What is the space a chondrocyte occupies?
Chondrocytes are found in lacunae in cartilage
When chondrocytes in lacunae divide and form new matrix it leads to an expansion of the cartilage tissue from within. This process is called?
When chondrocytes in lacunae divide and form new matrix, it leads to an expansion of the cartilage tissue from within. What is this process called?
Where in the body are chondrocytes located?
Chondrocytes or cartilage cells are the only cell in the cartilage matrix.
What best describes the interstitial growth of cartilage?
Chondrocytes in the lacunae divide and secrete matrix, allowing the cartilage to grow from within.
What kind of tissue contains lacunae and chondrocytes?
Cartilage, which is a supporting connective tissue Visual Anatomy and Physiology page 137
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.
Mature bone cells in lacunae are called?
lacunae
What is fibrocartilage composed of?
Fibrocartilage is compose of cartilage( which is a connective tissue composed of cells called chondrocytes. This chondrocytes is highly rich in collagen and other proteins. ) Fibrocartilage is however located in the intervertebral disks of vertebrates. It function is to act as a cushion and provide protect between vertebraes.
Bone cells that are located within spaces called?
Lacunae
What is cartilage cells called?
Chondrocytes
Why are the cells in lacunae?
In bone the cells that occupy the lacunae are osteocytes.
