cartilage

German: Knorpel
Japanese: 軟骨

Anatomy. A non-vascular, flexibel form of connective tissue that is composed of cartilage cells (chrondrocytes) embedded in a extracellular matrix of collagen type II and large amounts of proteoglycan, particularly chondroitin sulphate.

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