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Skeletal system

Composed of bones, ligaments, and cartilage

Cartilage

Contains no blood vessels or nerves


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Perichondrium

-Dense connective tissue that surrounds cartilage


- contains blood vessels for nutrient delivery to cartilage


- chondrocytes are the living cells of cartilage