Across
- 1. common glass-like cartilage
- 4. looooooooooong GAG
- 5. waste product of anaerobically respiring chondrocytes
- 12. the inner layer of perichondrium easily seen when cartilage is growing
- 14. growth of cartilage from perichondrium
- 16. chemistry term for thirsty GAGS
- 17. fiber in the epiglottis that prevents choking as I recoil
- 19. this is the solution to resisting loadbearing forces
- 20. you won't find these bloody things in cartilage - no cap!
- 21. name for a group of two or four chondrocytes in the cartilage matrix
- 22. growth of cartilage from within its ECM
- 23. collagen that organizes cartilage ECM fibrils into a lattice
Down
- 2. a hole where a chondrocyte lives
- 3. major cartilage specific collagen
- 6. 1-across cartilage (but without the perichondrium!)
- 7. cells that secrete cartilage ECM
- 8. stem cell type from which cartilage cells arise
- 9. glycoprotein that is to chondrocytes as laminin is to epithelial cells
- 10. it's how 3-down appears in the light microscope
- 11. name for cartilage proteoglycans
- 13. the outer layer of perichondrium composed of type I collagen
- 15. force resisted by 6-down cartilage
- 18. special fibrocartilage disc containing articulation for DDS