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What region of a long bone fuses at the completion of its growth?
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What is a ephiphyseal line?
Epiphyseal line is the junction between diaphysis (long part of the bone) and epiphysis (growing end of the bone). This is the region where the growth of bone takes place. Gradually as an individual approaches puberty, the epiphysis fuses with the bone and the growth stops.
Where is the region of growth in a bone?
In the epiphyseal plate.
What does the epiphysis do?
It is a vital growth area near the end of a long bone, which later fuses with the main bone through ossification.
What is a growth plate?
A growth plate is a region of cartilage at the ends of long bones in children and adolescents where bone growth occurs. It eventually hardens into solid bone once growth is complete. Injuries to growth plates can affect bone growth and development.
Area where bone growth takes place?
the physiological zones of bone growth is a logical growth between the bone and the osteoclasts.
This is a lining found in bone that promotes bone growth in width?
Metaphysis is the lining that promotes bone growth in width.
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 process called when bones increase in width?
The process of bone growth is known as osteoporosis.osteoporosis is a degenerative bone disease, ossification in the process of bone growth
What is bone growth stimulation?
Bone growth stimulation is the technique of promoting bone growth in difficult to heal fractures by applying a low electrical current or ultrasound to the fracture.
Does this hormone promote bone growth or bone thinning?
No
How can you stop growth?
break your growth plate...in your bone
The area of a long bone where growth in bone length occurs is the?
The Epiphyseal or Growth Plate!
