0 a type of cartilage that contains groups of collagen fibres (= an important protein found in the body)
The joints are covered by two different kinds of cartilage; the sacral surface has hyaline cartilage and the ilial surface has fibrocartilage.
Damaged hyaline cartilage is usually replaced by fibrocartilage scar tissue.
These cells typically differentiate into fibrocartilage and rarely form hyaline cartilage.
It is thicker behind than in front, and occasionally contains a small fibrocartilage, about 6 mm. in length.
The "anulus fibrosus" consists of several layers of fibrocartilage.
Previous repair procedures, however, always generated fibrocartilage or, at best, a combination of hyaline and fibrocartilage repair tissue.
Results for large lesions tend to diminish over time; this can be attributed to the decreased resilience and poor wear characteristics of the fibrocartilage.
It is regarded as a rudimentary intervertebral fibrocartilage, and in it traces of the notochord may persist.
