lacunae
What's special about hyaline cartilage?
Submitted by admin on November 13, 2007 - 6:23pm.
If one looks at the microscopic structure of cartilage one will see that it is composed primarily of a slippery white 'matrix' (imagine a contact lens - flexible and slippy but strong) which is strengthened by the incorporation of randomly arranged collagen fibrils (tiny fibres).
