cartilage tissue

Skeletal tissue that is avascular, rich in glycosaminoglycans (GAGs) and typically includes chondrocytes within isolated lacunae. Cartilage tissue is deposited by chondroblasts. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the cartilage tissue is

Skeletal tissue that is avascular, rich in glycosaminoglycans (GAGs) and typically includes chondrocytes within isolated lacunae. Cartilage tissue is deposited by chondroblasts. The atlas records it as a cartilage at the organ scale in the human body.

Where the cartilage tissue is

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

What the cartilage tissue connects to

The atlas records 18 typed relationships for it, across 5 kinds of connection. part of musculoskeletal system, skeletal element and cartilage element, and 1 more.

Supply and innervation

This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the cartilage tissue. 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 tissue, cartilaginous tissue, chondrogenic tissue, cartilage, cartilages and portion of cartilage tissue. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0002418, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• Part of: musculoskeletal system, skeletal element, cartilage element and cartilaginous neurocranium.
• A kind of: connective tissue.
• subtype: cartilage tissue of sternum, elastic cartilage tissue, epiphyseal plate of radius, fibrocartilage, hyaline cartilage tissue and nasal cartilage, and 1 more.
• composed of: cartilage element, cartilaginous external acoustic tube, cartilaginous joint, cartilaginous projection and sesamoid cartilage.
• contributes to morphology of: skeletal system.

Questions

Where is the cartilage tissue?

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

What does the cartilage tissue connect to?

Part of: musculoskeletal system, skeletal element, cartilage element and cartilaginous neurocranium.

Is the cartilage tissue 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.