Bacteria and viruses can infect the conjunctiva. Redness and tearing or discharge are common symptoms, and some people have sensitivity to light. Good hygiene helps prevent the infection from spreading to the other eye or to someone else's eye. Antibiotic eye drops are often given.
Cartilage and Adipose. Cartilage. Cartilage is a specialized connective tissue that provides for both strength and flexibility. It is mainly found in the form of hyaline cartilage (hyalos means glass in Greek), which is so named because of its smooth, glassy bluish-white appearance when fresh.
- Description: most common type cartilage connective tissue, has very fine collagenous fibers in extracellular matrix, looks like white glass - Function: important in development and growth of most bones - Location: found on the ends of bones in many joints, in soft part of the nose, in the supporting rings of the respiratory passages