Relating to the epiphysis, the end section of a long bone that is initially separate from the shaft and eventually fuses during skeletal maturation.
From 'epiphysis' + '-ary' (relating to). A medical anatomical term for anything connected to bone growth plates and end sections.
Epiphysary plates are your body's biological growth clocks—they're the soft zones at the ends of bones where teenagers experience growth spurts, and they fully harden by early adulthood.
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