Bone starts out as cartilage and as it matures it becomes bone...
To avoid bone-on-bone friction.
No, the shin section of the leg does not have cartilage. The shin is made up of the tibia bone, which is a large, weight-bearing bone in the lower leg. Cartilage is not present in the shin bone itself.
Not really. The nails are more of a compact layered skin structure. Cartilage is more for cushioning and lubrication between bones. Some areas do have a rigid structure of cartilage, but it's softer than nail tissue.
Long bones contain compact bone tissue on the outer layer and spongy bone tissue on the inner layer. Compact bone provides strength and support, while spongy bone helps to reduce the bone's weight without compromising its strength.
cartilage is present at the end of a bone at joints as it is soft so the joints bend and help in doing our work properly.bones are hard but a cartilage is soft.
Articular cartilage
Cartilage is present in the bridge of nose.
hyaline cartilage is located in between bones
It is found at either end of the long bones where it provides a shockabsorbance in the synovial joint capsule.
Teeth are teeth, neither cartilage or bone. But more similar to bone than cartilage.
ligaments connect bone to bone, tendons connect muscle to bone and cartilage is the semi solid bones that are present at the places where they required. For example: our external ears, nose, between 2 joints cartilage is present.
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