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<p>The <b>epiphyseal plate</b>, <b>epiphysial plate</b>, <b>physis</b>, or <b>growth plate</b> is a <a href="page.php?w=hyaline_cartilage">hyaline cartilage</a> plate in the <a href="page.php?w=metaphysis">metaphysis</a> at each end of a <a href="page.php?w=long_bone">long bone</a>. It is the part of a long bone where new bone growth takes place; that is, the whole bone is alive, with maintenance <a href="page.php?w=bone_remodeling">remodeling</a> throughout its existing <a href="page.php?w=bone_tissue">bone tissue</a>, but the growth plate is the</p><p>
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