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epiphyseal plate

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A hyaline cartilage plate in the metaphysis at each end of a long bone. The plate is found in children and adolescents; in adults, who have stopped growing, the plate is replaced by an epiphyseal line. [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epiphyseal_plate ]

Synonyms: epiphyseal growth plate cartilage epiphyseal growth plate epiphysial plate long bone epiphyseal plate

This is just here as a test because I lose it

Term information

Subsets

uberon_slim, pheno_slim

depicted by

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7a/Tib_fib_growth_plates.jpg

editor note

consider splitting this class into the epiphyseal plates of long bones and vertebrae

has related synonym

epiphyseal disk

cartilago epiphysialis

epiphyseal cartilage

epiphyseal growth disk

growth plate

physis

lamina epiphysialis

id

UBERON:0002516