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Cartilage is a resilient and smooth elastic tissue, a rubber-like padding that covers and protects the ends of long bones at the joints, and is a structural component of the rib cage, the ear, the nose, the bronchial tubes, the intervertebral discs, and many other body components.
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Explain why bones cannot undergo interstitial growth as cartilage does
While mature cartilage is solid, the extracellular matrix secreted by chondroblasts during cartilage formation is soft enough to allow for both cell division and tissue expansion. … From this point on, further growth can only take place by apposition, i.e. new cartilage matrix is secreted by chondroblasts found in the perichondrium. …