what is the relationship between ossification and the epiphyseal plate?
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Ossification is the formation of bone. In the long bones it occurs through bone replacing cartilage. The epiphyseal plate is the location where cartilage is being replaced by bone as the bone is growing.
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Hi Visu !!!\n\n"Osteoporosis is a disease in which bones become fragile and more likely to break. If not prevented or if left untreated, osteoporosis can progress painlessly until a bone breaks. These broken bones, also known as fractures, occur typically in the hip, spine, and wrist.\n\nAny bone can be affected, but of special concern are fractures of the hip and spine. A hip fracture almost always requires hospitalization and major surgery. It can impair a person's ability to walk unassisted and may cause prolonged or permanent disability or even death. Spinal or vertebral fractures also have serious consequences, including loss of height, severe back pain, and deformity."\n\n----------------------------------------------------\n\n"Reduction in the quantity of bone or atrophy of skeletal tissue; an age-related disorder characterized by decreased bone mass and increased susceptibility to fractures." - From Stedman's Medical Dictionary. \n\n\nPlease go through the below articles for valuable data about osteoporosis.\n\n>>> Naveen Kumar
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See site below on this since it is a little complex to answer. I guess you mean bone density. Note-- many many experts have this wrong and site below explains this.
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It is both.  It is a name for the bones at the end of your extremities (arms and legs)
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Hardness.  Bones are made mostly of calcium (which does have the properties of a metal in it's elemental form).  When your born, you don't have very many bones - it's mostly cartlidge, like the stuff that makes up the tip of your nose and the top part of your ear.  This is a very flexible substance (and that's good cause babies need to be flexible to get out of their moms).  As you get older this cartlidge is replaced with a calcium matrix and your bones get harder.\n\nThe mineral deposites in your bones are the reason why you break your leg when you fall out of a tree instead of just bending it a little.
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generally at the end of a long bone..the epiphysis...it is filled with a spongy material called cancellous and red marrow
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craniology is the study of skulls.\n\nSkull, term applied to the rigid cartilaginous or bony structure located anterior to the spinal column in all vertebrate animals, and serving to encase and protect the brain and to provide attachment for the muscles of the face and mouth. In lower vertebrates, such as cyclostomes and elasmobranchs, the skull is composed of cartilage throughout the lifetime of the organism; in teleost fishes and in more highly developed vertebrates, including humans, the skull is cartilaginous during embryonic and fetal life, becoming ossified early in postnatal life.
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osteochondrosis, aka osteochondritis is the inflammation of the bone and marrow cavities of the afflicted bone(s), juvinile being childhood onset and pelvis specifying the bone afflicted
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Lots of links to bones related sites including lecture notes\ncan be found at:\nhttp://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Lab/9893/osteolinks.html
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Calcium is the main ingredient in bones. Bones are the frame work or "steel Support" of the body. Muscle are attached to the bones, yes they do the lifting and pulling part  but they need a good achor and lever system. It does no good to have a strong muscle if the the item it is attached to will snap.
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What is diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis (DISH)?  \n\nDISH is characterized by excessive bone growth along the sides of the vertebrae of the spine \nIt also involves inflammation and bone growth where tendons and ligaments attach to bone, such as at the elbow, knee and the heel of the foot. \nBone spurs are common among people with DISH\n\nDISH (sometimes called Forestier’s disease) is considered a form of degenerative arthritis and is characterized by excessive bone growth along the sides of the vertebrae of the spine. It is also associated with inflammation and calcification (bone growth) at other areas of the body where tendons and ligaments attach to bone, such as at the elbow, knee and the heel of the foot. These can lead to bone spurs. Heel spurs, for example, are common among people with DISH.\n\nHow common is DISH?  \n\nDISH is very common, affecting between six and 12 percent of North Americans. \nIt rarely occurs among people younger than 50. \nIt affects more men than women.\n\nDISH is thought to be the second most common form of arthritis after osteoarthritis. It affects between six and 12 percent of North Americans, almost always occurring among people older than 50. Unlike most types of arthritis, DISH occurs more often among men (65%) than women (35 %), and affects 28 percent of men over the age of 80.
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Osteogenesis Imperfecta is a congenital disease (blue sclera disease like the person above said). this is a condition resulting from abnormality in the type I collagen, and commonly manifests as brittle easily breakable bones. \n\nLike the people above said osteoporosis is a systemic skeletal disorder people have decreased bone mass and deterioration of bone architecture. Usually people with this have fragile bones and an increased risk for fracture with even minimal trauma. Good luck with your report.
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Actually, cartilage itself is a type of framework connective tissue.  It serves as a framework for parts that need to be flexible, such as ears.  It also serves as an excellent embryonic skeleton because cartilage can be replaced by bone through cartilage replacement ossification. Ligaments connect bones to bones, not cartilage, and synovial fluid keeps joints from grinding against one another
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Car·ti·lage    \n \nA tough, elastic, fibrous connective tissue found in various parts of the body, such as the joints, outer ear, and larynx. A major constituent of the embryonic and young vertebrate skeleton, it is converted largely to bone with maturation.\n\nBone    \n\nThe dense, semirigid, porous, calcified connective tissue forming the major portion of the skeleton of most vertebrates. It consists of a dense organic matrix and an inorganic, mineral component. \n\nThe definitions do not make it entirely clear, but basics first! \n\nCartilage is flexible connective tissue, bone is rigid, inflexible, and calcified. Try bending your upper ear, easy right? That's cartilage. Bone is not flexible (Like your skull.)  \n\nYour question was cut off, did you want to know the difference between a shark skeleton and a human's? A shark skeleton is almost entirely cartilage, a man's is mostly bone, with some connective cartilage.
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Well it may depend if your bones are done growing, usually at your age they are but sometimes they still have a inch or so in reserve.\nThe bones are made initially of cartilage which can grow but once the cartilage has been replaced by thick bone it cannot grow anymore and the growth stops this happens though puberty \nUsually when people reach puberty the sexual hormones (estrogen in women and testosterone in men) increase the rate of growth but the also make the bones harder so the make you to stop growing earlier.\nIf you still have some cartilage in your growing plates (parts where the bone still can grow) it means that you can grow a little more, sometimes your physician can help you with growth hormone but usually that´s only used as a last resort.\nif you're done growing hormones would do more harm than good so please don´'t use them unless your doctor prescribes them to you.\nBut my final advice is to be happy as you are, we come in all colors and sizes so there´s no need to change as  long as we are healthy.\nand by the way in the future you´ll love to look younger than what you really are (like when you are in your 30´s) and that´s one of the rewards for the petites
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It is doubtful at your age that your growth plates are still open however an x-ray would be able to show them.  The only other way to lengthen your legs is a operation where the bone in broken and separated with screws to cause more bone to grow in the middle.  It is a brutal surgery and I wouldn't recommend it unless you had a severely short leg or other problem.  5'6" isn't that short.
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doctors break your legs, set the bone after drilling metal bars into them, and bones grow in place of the bone that is now missing due to its 1 inch further down your leg, takes forever to heal, but yay, you have now grown 2 inches, very slowly, extremely painful but god damn, 2 inches is noice!