Magnified Cartilage Developing Cells in the Epiphyseal Plate


a Zone of reserve cartilage - resting chondrocytes
b Zone of Proliferation - newly dividing chondrocytes
c Zone of Hypertrophy - older enlarged cartilage cells
d Zone of Calcification - cells that have died and are ready for their cartilagenous shells to be ossified.

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