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Tracheal cartilage (200X)

Microimage
The tracheal cartilage is hyaline cartilage. Image copyright: University of Oslo, CC BY-NC-ND 4.0. (Tissue stain: H+E).

There are three different types of cartilage:

  1. hyaline cartilage (as depicted here)
  2. elastic cartilage
  3. fibrous cartilage

Cartilage does not contain any vessels or nerves.

Published April 27th 2023, updated January 11th 2024.