enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Endochondral ossification - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endochondral_ossification

    In this zone, chondrocytes are either dying or dead, leaving cavities that will later become invaded by bone-forming cells. Chondrocytes here die when they can no longer receive nutrients or eliminate wastes via diffusion. This is because the calcified matrix is much less hydrated than hyaline cartilage. Zone of ossification

  3. Epiphyseal plate - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epiphyseal_plate

    The epiphyseal plate, epiphysial plate, physis, or growth plate is a hyaline cartilage plate in the metaphysis at each end of a long bone.It is the part of a long bone where new bone growth takes place; that is, the whole bone is alive, with maintenance remodeling throughout its existing bone tissue, but the growth plate is the place where the long bone grows longer (adds length).

  4. Ossification - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ossification

    The canal of the nutrient foramen is directed away from more active end of bone when one end grows more than the other. When bone grows at same rate at both ends, the nutrient artery is perpendicular to the bone. Most other bones (e.g. vertebrae) also have primary ossification centers, and bone is laid down in a similar manner. Secondary centers

  5. Wolff's law - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolff's_law

    Tennis players often use one arm more than the other. The racquet-holding arm bones of tennis players become stronger than those of the other arm. Their bodies have strengthened the bones in their racquet-holding arm, since it is routinely placed under higher than normal stresses. The most critical loads on a tennis player's arms occur during ...

  6. Bone remodeling - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bone_remodeling

    Bone tissue is removed by osteoclasts, and then new bone tissue is formed by osteoblasts. Both processes utilize cytokine (TGF-β, IGF) signalling.In osteology, bone remodeling or bone metabolism is a lifelong process where mature bone tissue is removed from the skeleton (a process called bone resorption) and new bone tissue is formed (a process called ossification or new bone formation).

  7. Growth arrest lines - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Growth_arrest_lines

    Growth arrest lines, also known as Harris lines, are lines of increased bone density that represent the position of the growth plate at the time of insult to the organism and formed on long bones due to growth arrest. They are only visible by radiograph or in cross-section. The age at which the lines were formed can be estimated from a radiograph.

  8. Bone remodeling period - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bone_remodeling_period

    The bone formation portion (σ f) of the bone remodeling period is calculated as follows: [5] = in which MWT refers to the mean wall thickness of the completed bone unit and M f refers to the prevailing mean effective bone appositional rate. In other words, what this formula means is that the bone remodeling period is equivalent to the ...

  9. Isogenous group - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isogenous_group

    [3] [5] This is termed interstitial growth and is one of only two ways cartilage can grow. [ 4 ] Cartoon representation of hyaline cartilage with isogenous groups.