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What are the following and where do you find them in animal body
(a) Chondriocytes
(b) Axons
(c) Ciliated epithelium

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(a) Chondrocytes are the large, rounded, mature cells occuring in groups in the matrix (ground substance) of the cartilage. Cartilage is found in the pinna, tip of the nose, intervetebral discs, sternal ribs, tracheal and bronchial tings, nasal septum etc.
(b) Each axon is a single very long, cylindrical process of the nerve cell (neuron). It arises from cyton and conducts nerve impulses away from the cell body. Axon ends in a group of branches called terminal arborizations. These are present in the entire body. ltBrgt (c ) Cilliated epithelium. It consists of cells that bear fine, vibratile cytoplasmic processes, the cilia, on the free surface.It lines certain parts of urinary tubules of kidneys, nasal passages, oviducts (fallopian tubes), terminal bronchioles, ventricles of brain etc.
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