Noun
cartilage (plural cartilage)- A type of dense connective tissue, usually found at the end of joints, the rib cage, the ear, the nose, in the throat and between intervertebral disks.
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...Cartilage is composed of specialized cells called chondrocytes that produce a large amount of extracellular matrix composed of collagen fibers, abundant ground substance rich in proteoglycan, and elastin fibers. Cartilage is classified in three types, elastic cartilage, hyaline cartilage and fibrocartilage, which differ in the relative amounts of these three main components. Read full entry
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- 1.Cartilage - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Cartilage is a stiff yet flexible connective tissue found in many areas in the ... grow via a hyaline cartilage intermediate, a process called Endochondral ...
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artilage
- 2.cartilage: Definition from Answers.com
- cartilage n. A tough, elastic, fibrous connective tissue found in various parts of the body, such as the joints, outer ear, and larynx
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Cartilage?
I got my cartilage pierced 6
months ago and I cleaned it
with this thing they gave me
everyday for 2 months. Now I
barely noticed theres this
bump beneath my cartilage.
What is that and will it go
away? Sometimes my cartilage
bleeds and clear stuff comes
out. also when can i like take
the earring off? i just want
to take it off to makes sure
everything is clean than put
it back on but i'm scared. plz
help thank u
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The bump doesn't mean it's infected. The bump is hypertrophic scarring, and will leave a link about them and how to get rid of them. Cartilage piercings take about a year to heal, even longer if you got it pierced with a piercing gun. Clear stuff (lymph) is normal in a healing piercing, and if you're rotating it blood is also normal. If your rotating it, stop. It's doing no good for your piercing and is causing you unnecessary pain. You have to wait until the piercing heals to change the jewelry, if it's still producing lymph and bleeding it's nowhere near healed yet. If you take the jewelry out even for a minute, you have a higher risk of an infection and a very angry piercing. Just keep doing sea salt soaks until it heals. I don't know what "this thing" is but if it's anything from a piercing gun place, stop using it. Chances are it's a great harbor for bacteria to live and grow in -- infection causing bacteria |
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How long after a cartilage I got my cartilage pierced
today (12th Aug) and i've read
the aftercare guide for lobe
piercings and it says not to
touch or clean the piercing
for the first 36 hours. Does
this apply to cartilage
piercings aswell? And some
people have been saying not to
turn the ear ring but when i
got my lobes pierced i had to
turn it everytime i cleaned
the piercing. Do you still
have to turn it for a
cartilage piercing?
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You should never, ever, ever rotate the jewelry no matter what the piercers at Piercing Pagoda or people online tell you. That is bad, outdated advice based on the myth that unturned jewelry will grow stuck inside the hole. It's physically impossible. All turning the jewelry does is break down healing tissue and present the risk of infection. Read the article below. It explains, in detail, why turning the jewelry is not good. http://body-jewelry-guide.com/ body-piercing-heals-should-i-k eep-turning-the-body-jewelry-d uring-the-day.html You should clean your piercing tonight with saline solution. Never use handsoaps, Bactine, ear cleaning solution from gun piercing salons, peroxide, Betadine, iodine, rubbing alcohol or antibiotic ointments. You can either purchase H2Ocean, isotonic contact lens solution or make the saline solution yourself. Heat 1 cup of filtered or distilled water and add 1/8-1/4 teaspoon of non-iodized (it must be a non-iodized salt) sea salt. Use a cotton ball saturated in the solution to gently loosen up crusting. Hold it to the front of the piercing until the heat dissipates. Repeat with a fresh cotton ball. Then do the same thing for the back. Rinse and then dab dry with a dry paper towel. Always make sure your hands are exceptionally clean when doing this. Do this twice a day and that's it. No other treatment is necessary. |
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How bad does a cartilage How bad does a cartilage
piercing in your upper ear
hurt? I want to get one of
those bars that connect two
cartilage piercings and I
actually have my nose pierced
and my ears triple pierced
which didn't hurt at all but
I've heard mixed stories about
cartilage piercings. Thoughts?
Suggestions?
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First things first - you should NEVER, EVER have a cartilage piercing done with a gun. Even the makers of piercing guns (Inverness and Studex) state right in their instructions that they should NEVER be used on anything other than your earlobes because of the trauma to the skin and damage to cartilage that it causes. Don't just go for "who has the cutest earrings" - wait until they're healed!!! Cartilage can shatter (much like bone would) and with a gun piercing, will take far longer healing and much longer pain. There are other reasons that you should never be pierced (at all) with a piercing gun, but we'd be here all day - for more info on that, go to the Association of Professional Piercer's website at www.safepiercing.org for more info on that (check out the FAQ). All in all, do you REALLY want someone who's been "trained" by watching a 15 minute video that doesn't even MENTION cartilage? I doubt it. There is no numbing that you can do for cartilage - and even so, if there were, they'd have to stick a needle in your ear in order to numb it. Topical ointments only numb the skin. Helix (upper ear cartilage) piercings are generally one of the longest healing times for any body piercing, being 6 months to a full year or longer for a good solid heal - THAT is with a needle piercing. It's usually near twice the healing time for a gun piercing due to increased trauma. The reason for this - although there is sufficient bloodflow to the area, the blood vessels are far too small to transport oxygen to the upper ear. Oxygen is needed to heal wounds, and since this is not an option, the healing time increases and you have to care for it much more than any other traditional piercing. And last, but not least, unfortunately pain is relative to the person getting pierced - which means that some people will find it painful, while others will not. In general, a helix piercing, because it's through cartilage, will be slightly more painful than most other body piercings. |
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