MICROANATOMY

Detailed explanation-1: -Bones grow in length at the epiphyseal plate by a process that is similar to endochondral ossification. The cartilage in the region of the epiphyseal plate next to the epiphysis continues to grow by mitosis.

Detailed explanation-2: -Epiphyseal plates cause the lengthwise growth of a long bone. By the end of puberty, when hor-mones inhibit long bone growth, epiphyseal plates have been completely replaced by bone, leaving only the epiphyseal lines to mark their previous location.

Detailed explanation-3: -Longitudinal bone growth is the ossification of the bone that grows lengthwise until they stop growing. Appositional bone growth continues till death and is the growth of the bones in diameter or thickness.