A translucent bluish-white type of cartilage present in the joints, the respiratory tract, and the immature skeleton.
Example sentencesExamples
- Microscopic examination revealed nodules of hyaline cartilage with chondrocytes arranged in a clustering pattern.
- Therefore the cartilage tissue resembles fibroelastic cartilage instead of hyaline cartilage which makes up most of the normal laryngeal cartilaginous structures except epiglottis.
- Early results seem to indicate that the probe has sufficient sensitivity to detect mechanical differences in hyaline cartilage compared with fibrous cartilage.
- Fibrocartilage has characteristics similar to both dense connective tissue and hyaline cartilage.
- The cricoid cartilage is a ring of hyaline cartilage that forms the inferior wall of the larynx.