Identify:

Macroscopic

• The dark purple stained elastic cartilage in the centre of the tissue.

Microscopic

• Lacunae

• Chondrocytes.

• Matrix

• Perichondrium

Draw and annotate:

A portion of the cartilage and perichondrium in fine detail.

1. How do the lacunae appear with respect to their shape, size and arrangement?
2. What is characteristic of this matrix?

Elastic cartilage

• Macroscopic view of the external ear
• Elastic cartilage in the ear
• Perichondrium of elastic cartilage in the ear
• Elastic cartilage
• Elastic cartilage