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Which function is not associated with cartilage?

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Cartilage does not contain blood vessels (it is avascular) or nerves (it is aneural). Some fibrocartilage such as the meniscus of the knee does however have blood supply in part. Nutrition is supplied to the chondrocytes by diffusion.

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