Cartilage

1. The basophilic of the matrix is dependent upon the concentration of ______ (more=more basophilic)
5. produce synovial fluid
8. ear, epiglottis; flexible
16. bone forms on dead mineralized cartilage "scaffold"
19. _______ matrix: near the clusters of chondrocytes
21. joints, ribs, physes, nose; most common type
23. ______ matrix: found further from chondrocytes
24. mature, inactive fibroblasts
26. synovial cell with phagocytic function
27. Because fibrocartilage lacks a perichondrium, it lacks the ability to _______.

2. cartilage may have blood vessels in young growing animals but is ______ CT in adults
3. physeal zone 2
4. articular cartilage is smooth and formed by ______ collagen; it lacks vasculature which leads to poor capacity for regeneration
6. menisci, insertions of tendons and ligaments, intervertebral disc; type 1 collagen
7. joint that unites 2 bone ends covered by articular cartilage and capsule (limb and vertebral joints)
9. bones united by cartilage or fibrocartilage
10. immature cartilage; contains elongated fusiform cells that give rise to chondroblasts
11. fibrous joints
12. cartilage is found at ________ ossification
13. tooth socket
14. cells that can differential into cartilage, bone, fibrous tissue
15. physeal zone 3
17. cluster of chondrocytes
18. chondrogenic layer; present in all hyaline cartilage except articular cartilage
20. physeal zone 1
22. mature cartilage cells
25. tibia-fibula joint
28. synovial cell that secretes hyaluronic acid and mucin