The epiphysis is filled with red bone marrow, which produces erythrocytes (red blood cells). There are four types of epiphysis: Pressure epiphysis: The...

Slipped capital femoral epiphysis (SCFE or skiffy, slipped upper femoral epiphysis, SUFE or souffy, coxa vara adolescentium) is a medical term referring...

The pineal gland (also known as the pineal body or epiphysis cerebri) is a small endocrine gland in the brain of most vertebrates. It produces melatonin...

which forms the tuberosity; that for the lower epiphysis appears in the second year. The lower epiphysis fuses with the tibial shaft at about the eighteenth...

other serious causes, such as septic arthritis or slipped capital femoral epiphysis, may be present. The diagnostic approach involves ruling out potentially...

the fourth year. The lower epiphysis, the first to ossify, unites with the body about the twentieth year; the upper epiphysis joins about the twenty-fifth...

metaphysis (pl.: metaphyses) is the neck portion of a long bone between the epiphysis and the diaphysis. It contains the growth plate, the part of the bone...

progressively eroded and replaced by hardened bone, extending towards the epiphysis. A perichondrium layer surrounding the cartilage forms the periosteum...

epiphyseal closure. In adult humans, it marks the point of fusion between the epiphysis and the metaphysis. The epiphyseal line serves no function in the bone...

- inferior epiphysis. Anterior view. Trochlea. Posterior view. Humerus - inferior epiphysis. Posterior view. Humerus - superior epiphysis. Anterior view...