On closer examination a yellowish-white transverse line may be seen at the epiphyseal junction of the ribs, and frequently some subperiosteal hemorrhage.
Holt reports a case where a child bled to death following incision into an epiphyseal swelling at the lower end of the femur.
The distinctive characteristic of rickets is the broad area of osteoid tissue which is formed at the epiphyseal junction, a broad band of incompletely calcified cartilage not found in scurvy.
Even gentle handling in the course of performing the necropsy may occasion a lesion of this kind--of the tibia at the knee, of the radius or ulna at the wrist, or indeed at any of the epiphyseal junctions.
Not until the subperiosteal hemorrhages andepiphyseal separations were discovered was the nature of the trouble suspected.
It is to these epiphyseal separations that the term fracture or infraction usually refers.
Osteomyelitis nearly always begins in the diaphysis of the long bones, usually near the epiphyseal line.
Like epiphyseal separations, recognition and proper treatment of these fractures have assumed great importance.
The disease usually begins with a sharp onset, the first symptom being a sudden localized pain in the vicinity of the epiphyseal line, or in the shaft of some one of the long bones.
Besides the irregularity of the epiphyseal line, three other changes are seen in the bones of syphilitic infection.
The latter formation is the one which is most common in the vicinity of the epiphyseal line of the long bones, notably of the leg.
They also appear frequently to arise from theepiphyseal line.
These areepiphyseal separations and articular fractures.
The principal pathologic change is seen in the epiphyseal lines of long bones and beneath the periosteum.
In rachitis epiphyseal swellings are seen at the wrists and ankle-joints, and in superior cases at the ends of the phalanges of the fingers and toes.
Eight of 20 Sonoran specimens taken in May are females, each of which lacks epiphyseal sutures, and each contained one embryo.
The two skins having the darkest pelage are both of males and are the only two skins having open epiphyseal sutures.
Six of the 16 Guerreran specimens taken in May are young as shown by the open epiphyseal sutures; all other Guerreran specimens lacked these sutures.
The following are average and extreme measurements in millimeters of 17 adults (lacking epiphyseal sutures): total length, 93.
Three of 8 Sonoran specimens taken in July had open epiphyseal sutures but were of adult size.
The nose of the bullet is at the epiphyseal line, which is shown in the femur.
In other tissues offering but little resistance like lung tissues, soft parts generally, and epiphyseal ends of bone, the wounds inflicted were considered humane in character.
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