Voorbeelden van epiphyses

• Warfarin embryopathy includes nasal hypoplasia and/or stippled epiphyses.

• As the castrato's body grew, his lack of testosterone meant that his epiphyses (bone-joints) did not harden in the normal manner.

• The male growth spurt also begins later, accelerates more slowly, and lasts longer before the epiphyses fuse.

• These various epiphyses are joined to the bone by the 25th year.

• This disorder affects the epiphyses, the parts of the bone where growth occurs.

• The remaining cartilaginous portions of the epiphyses become thinner.

• With subadults, the development of teeth, length of long bones, and union of epiphyses are used to estimate age.

• The ends of epiphyses are covered with hyaline cartilage (articular cartilage).