उपास्थि (en. Cartilage)

On internal examination, cricoid cartilage, thyroid cartilage, Hyoid bone were found fractured.

Fibrocartilage - the toughest type of cartilage, able to withstand heavy weights.

Hyoid bone, Thyroid cartilage, tracheal rings and other organs in the neck were normal, but they were decomposing.

For the first seven pairs of ribs, at the front, the other end of each rib is attached to some cartilage called costal cartilage.

In children & adolescents, it stimulates growth of bone and cartilage.

Number one, there is such a thing as a skeletal stem cell - a skeletal stem cell that builds up the entire vertebrate skeleton, bone, cartilage and the fibrous elements of skeleton, just like there's a stem cell in blood, just like there's a stem cell in the nervous system.

They live just underneath the surface of the bone, underneath cartilage.