Whales can withstand dramatic pressure changes because their bodies are more flexible. Their ribs are bound by loose, bendable cartilage, which allows the rib cage to collapse at pressures that would easily snap our bones.

The cartilage has slipped out here.

The meniscus is not a bone. It is a cartilage, a flexible, elastic tissue.

The outer part of the ear is made of cartilage.

I love cartilage.

This cartilage is very chewy.

Osteoarthritis is a degenerative condition of the joints in which the normal cartilage cushion in the joints breaks down.

Disk herniation is when cartilage, called 'intervertebral disk' and found between each vertebra, slips out.