In paralysed limbs the growth from the epiphyses is usually little short of the normal.
In the acute arthritis of infants, the epiphysis concerned may be separated and displaced.
In the upper limb the more active epiphyses are at the shoulder and wrist, and these also are the last to unite.
Separation of an epiphysis nearly always results in infection and destruction of the adjacent joint.
The epiphyses are nourished by a separate system of blood vessels, derived from the arteries which supply the adjacent joint.
Located a little above the distal epiphysis, where the shaft, through the reduction of the muscular ridges and crests, becomes nearly cylindrical.
The between-sets correlations were low, the highest correlation being 0n20-0n25 between width at epiphysis and the four osteochondrosis variables.
A left unfused distal femoral epiphysis is also preserved.
