{"id":7873,"date":"2019-05-22T16:01:34","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:01:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/epiphysis\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T16:01:34","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:01:34","slug":"epiphysis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/epiphysis\/","title":{"rendered":"Epiphysis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The portion of a long bone formed during secondary ossification, and initially separated from the diaphyses by cartilage. They ossify separately and eventually fuse with the diaphysis (see figure below).&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"text-align: center; \">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Epiphysis.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"text-align: center; \">Epiphysis and related parts of a long bone (viz., &nbsp;humerus). &nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"adolescent_growth_spurt\">Adolescent growth spurt<\/a>, Chrondrification, <a href=\"diaphysis\">Diaphysis<\/a>, <a href=\"endochondral_ossification\">Endochondral ossification<\/a>, <a href=\"joint_capsule\">Joint capsule<\/a>, <a href=\"musculoskeletal_system\">Musculoskeletal system<\/a>, <a href=\"ossification\">Ossification<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The portion of a long bone formed during secondary ossification, and initially separated from the diaphyses by cartilage. They ossify separately and eventually fuse with the diaphysis (see figure below).&nbsp; Epiphysis and related parts of a long bone (viz., &nbsp;humerus). &nbsp;&nbsp; See Adolescent growth spurt, Chrondrification, Diaphysis, Endochondral ossification, Joint capsule, Musculoskeletal system, Ossification<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-7873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-glossary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7873\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}