This presentation was made by various histology slides of cartilages (taken from web pages) as a pretest for the exams. Not for any other commercial purposes.

1. HistologyCartilages by Yapa Wijeratne

2. Hyaline Cartilage is pretty straight forward. Look for the isogenous groups in the homogenous matrix. You shouldn't have much trouble here.

3. Differentiating elastic cartilage from fibrocartilage (and loose connective tissue and nerves and Wharton's Jelly, and etc.) is more difficult. On the light microscope you can "focus through" the cartilage to find the elastic fibers. But even so, it can still be difficult so be sure to spend some time on it.When I took histology, there was one thing I did learn: if all else fails, guess fibrocartilage. Try following slides.

4. Elastic cartilage

5. Elastic cartilage

6. Elastic cartilage

7. Elastic cartilage

8. Fibrocartilage

9. Fibrocartilage

10. Fibrocartilage

11. Hyaline Cartilage

12. Hyaline Cartilage

13. Hyaline Cartilage