| The use of androgens by adolescents who have not completed their full growth will eliminate further growth by closing the bone epiphyses. |
| Total body or spinal radiation may compromise spinal growth through a direct effect on the epiphyses. |
| This growth occurs at the epiphyses, where the main shaft of a bone joins the parts which are shaped to fit a joint at each end. |
| Two months later an x ray film showed bilateral slipped capital femoral epiphyses of both hips. |
| The skeleton is highly incomplete, consisting of hand and foot bones, epiphyses, ribs, vertebrae, the right ilium, and teeth. |
| The lower tibia and fibula epiphyses form the lumps that we see and feel at the sides of our ankles and call ankle bones. |
