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Growth plate

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Growth plate
The place in long bones where growth occurs during childhood.
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In addition, Pb has important in vivo effects on endochondral bone formation, as Pb-exposed mice and rats have altered growth plate morphology and decreased longitudinal growth (Gonzalez-Riola et al.
Lead induces chondrogenesis and alters transforming growth ... by Zuscik, Michael J.; Ma, Lin; Buckley, Taylor; Edward Puzas, J.; Drissi, Hicham; Schwarz, Edward M.; / Environmental Health Perspectives
8) Active cysts have been defined as those in direct contact with the adjacent growth plate in the skeletally immature patient, and inactive ones are those found at a distance from the growth plate.
Unicameral (simple) bone cysts by Eady, John L. / Southern Medical Journal
After a stress fracture was discovered along the growth plate of his left hip, Turner hobbled on crutches nearly four months before it was discovered the bones had separated by seven millimeters.
PLAYING WITH ADVERSITY: NOTHING CAN KEEP TURNER DOWN CAMPBELL HALL ... by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
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