cartilage element

Skeletal element that is composed of cartilage tissue and may be permanent or transient. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the cartilage element is

Skeletal element that is composed of cartilage tissue and may be permanent or transient. The atlas records it as a cartilage at the organ scale in the human body.

Where the cartilage element is

It sits within the skeletal system. Only the system is known. The position shown carries almost no spatial information.

What the cartilage element connects to

The atlas records 28 typed relationships for it, across 6 kinds of connection. a kind of skeletal element.

Supply and innervation

This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the cartilage element. Only a minority of structures carry those edges here, so an empty answer means nothing has been recorded — not that there is nothing to record.

Also called

Also recorded as cartilage organ, cartilaginous element, chondrogenic element and cartilage. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0007844, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• A kind of: skeletal element.
• subtype: acetabular labrum, cartilage of bronchus, cartilage of external ear, cartilage of nasal septum, cartilage of pharyngotympanic tube and costal cartilage, and 14 more.
• contains: cartilage tissue, perichondrium and surface of cartilage.
• bounding layer of: perichondrium and surface of cartilage.
• composed of: cartilage tissue.
• develops into: endochondral bone.

Questions

Where is the cartilage element?

It sits within the skeletal system. Only the system is known. The position shown carries almost no spatial information.

What does the cartilage element connect to?

A kind of: skeletal element.

Is the cartilage element the same in other species?

Leumas holds the same relationship vocabulary for every species it carries, so where another dataset records this structure you can put the two side by side on /compare.