| I never damaged any ligaments, still today have my original cartilages, I never broke anything and hardly had even a stitch put in me. |
| Exposure of the unfixed cartilages to the atmosphere even for a couple of hours also made them crooked and unshapely. |
| A similar pair of parachordal cartilages develop posteriorly from mesoderm, flanking the notochord. |
| The manubrium sometimes extends to the insertion of the third costal cartilages. |
| The hyoid bone, thyroid cartilage, and cricoid cartilages are located within the central portion of the neck. |
| Elastic cartilage is found in the external ear, auditory tube, epiglottis, and corniculate and cuneiform cartilages of the larynx. |
