Cartiladge

[mollykins]

Does cartiladge harden as you get older? i know in joints it can wear away which is basically why people get arthritis but does the cartiladge itself change?

[sandyRoe]

No D in it.

[bibblebub]

Are you sure you passed your English exams? It's spelt 'cartilage'.

[Jan1957]

Yes.

[mollykins]

Sory i meant cartilage, but I type fast so spell things wrong . . .

[mollykins]

Bibble FYI I got 2 bs in gcse english, one for language and one for literature . . .

[dotty.]

'wrongly'

[dotty.]

really? lol you can't tell

[dotty.]

I got grade 1 English, but that was 40 years ago and so i have an excuse

[bibblebub]

You seem to make quite a few spelling mistakes in your postings which can't all be down to typos since you usually repeat the misspellings.

[sandyRoe]

I think they want creativity now rather than correct spelling

[dotty.]

Molly is certainly creative.........

[theprof]

Err right. Moving along Molly, firstly look up endochondral ossification. In osteoarthriris, there's no change in the structure of the articular cartilage, it's just that it wears away as you know.

On a morbid note, I attended a cremation last week and it reminded me of something I was taught at university many years ago. Following an adult cremation, the ashes that are placed in the urn contain the bones of the deceased. However, in most cases, following the cremation of a very young child, no bone residue remains to collect as the skeletal structure of the body is composed entirely of cartilage, which is consumed by the cremation process.