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Is there anything that could cause epiphyseal plates to never seal? same height in adulthood for 12-plus yrs. could plates reopen or never have closed
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No, closure stopped: growth of long bones at the time you stopped growing in height. Epiphyseal plates are layers of cartilage near the ends of long bones which can lengthen bones. Closure means these regions have been transformed by osteoblasts into bone & all chondrocytes are gone. Once cartilage transitions to bone, invasion of chondrocytes and regression back to cartilage has never been discovered to occur.
Answered 5/28/2014
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