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| Zone of resting cartilage - location |
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| Zone of resting cartilage - structure |
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| Hyaline cartilage with scattered chondrocytes |
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| Zone of resting cartilage - function |
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| no activity, do not function in bone growth |
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| Zone of proliferating cartilage - function |
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| Zone of proliferating cartilage - structure |
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Definition
| chondrocytes undergo mitosis, forming columns of cells |
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| Zone of hypertrophic cartilage - function |
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Definition
| lengthening of diaphysis by hypertrophy in chondrocytes |
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| Zone of hypertrophic cartilage - structure |
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| Zone of calcified cartilage - function |
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Definition
| matrix around hypertrophied chondrocytes calcify and kill cells |
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| Zone of calcified cartilage - structure |
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Definition
osteoclasts that dissolve calcified cartilage
osteoblasts that secrete the matrix (collagen and ground substance)
Mineral salts (calcium and phosphate) are deposited in matrix |
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| cells that make up dense irregular tissue and differentiate into osteoblasts |
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