- [Voiceover] This slide is hyaline cartilage. It's what's found in the middle of the slide right here. Above, up here, and below, down here, is adipose tissue. So the current magnification that we're looking at is 100x total magnification. So what we're looking for though is what are the features of this hyaline cartilage. So if we zoom in we can see these have circular or more oval-like structures. And some of them have these little dots inside. So this little circle inside is the actual cell. That is your chondrocyte. The chondrocyte is the mature cell that will maintain your hyaline cartilage. This outer shell around it is called lacunae. So these chondrocytes will live inside lacunae. So we have our cells. This space in-between lacunae is the extracellular matrix, so all we're missing is the fibers. Now in hyaline cartilage a lot of times you do not see the fibers because they're within the extracellular matrix. They're there, just from the staining is not visible. So we have all three features that distinguish connective tissue. So this is your hyaline cartilage. Chondrocytes inside lacunae with the extracellular matrix, it's kind of a gel-like matrix, and the fibers are inside of that. So this is your hyaline cartilage.