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What happens to bone growth if the epiphyseal plate is damaged?
Bone growth would be stunted due to the damage done to the epiphyseal plate. The degree of which growth would be affected depends on the severity of the injury.
What is the growth plate also known as?
The epiphyseal plate is an area at the long end of the bone which contains growing bone. It is located between the epiphysis at the end of the bone and the diaphysis of another bone. This is only found in children and adolescents as it turns into the epiphyseal line in adults.
Age of growth plate fusion in 5th metatarsal in children?
12
What hormone is the most important stimulus of epiphyseal plate activity?
GROWTH hormone
What are the 5 factors that affect nail growth?
The weather, the age, the gender and nail biting are some of the factors that affect the growth of the nail plate.
Does it hurt bad when you break a growth plate?
it hurts quite bad. I fractured my growth plate in my shoulder.I took a couple x rays and it had a tiny crack in the growth plate.
What is the scientific name for growth plate?
Epiphyseal plate
The growth plate is also known as the what?
The epiphyseal plate.
How can you stop growth?
break your growth plate...in your bone
Another name for a growth plate is?
Epiphyseal plate
Where is the growth plate located in the arm?
In those who are not fully adult, growth plates are located on the ends of long bones. On the arm, the growth plate is located on the end of the humerus near the elbow.
What happens when the epiphyseal plate is replaced by bone?
When the epiphyseal plate is replaced by bone, then growth at that bone stops.
What is the scientific name for a growth plate?
The scientific name for a growth plate is physis. It is a layer of cartilage located at the ends of bones in children and adolescents that allows for bone growth.
What does drinking alcohol do to a person with a metal plate in their head?
That does no change the effects of alcohol.
What materials are found in a growth plate?
There are a number of materials that are found in the growth plate which is also referred to as physis. The main materials are fats and cartilage.
Do sit ups and weightliftng stop growth?
No. What can stop growth in an adolescent is an untreated growth plate fracture.Soccer, basketball, football, skateboarding, and bicycling are the five activities most likely to result in growth plate fracture. Sit-ups and weight training have never been directly implicated in any case of growth plate fracture.
Will you still grow if your Growth plate broke and how hard must it be to break it?
You will still grow if your growth plate broke, but you might have some abnormal bone formation. How hard you would have to hit the growth plate to break it varies greatly depending on the type of hit, the angle of the hit, and the item that hits the plate.
