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Epiphyses

"Epiphyses" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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The head of a long bone that is separated from the shaft by the epiphyseal plate until bone growth stops. At that time, the plate disappears and the head and shaft are united.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Epiphyses" by people in this website by year, and whether "Epiphyses" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 5 publications over 5 distinct years, with a maximum of 1 publications in 2007 and 2013 and 2016 and 2017 and 2018
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