The proximal end or head is evenly rounded and is formed by an epiphysis ossifying from a centre different from that forming the shaft.
At its proximal end it is closely united with the precoracoid, the two bones ossifying continuously.
The keel, or carina sterni, is formed as a direct cartilaginous outgrowth of the body of the sternum, ossifying from a special centre.
When there is marked rarefaction of the bone at the ossifying junction, the epiphysis is liable to be separated--epiphysiolysis.
Tenderness localised to the ossifying junction is the most valuable diagnostic sign of osteomyelitis.
The ossifying zone is increased in depth; the marrow is abnormally vascular; and the new bone that is formed is imperfectly calcified.
While they originate from the ossifying junctions of the long bones, they tend, as the shaft increases in length, to project from the surface of the bone at some distance from the ossifying junction and to "point" away from it.
At a later stage there is an ill-defined swelling in the region of the ossifying junction, with œdema of the overlying skin and dilatation of the superficial veins.
In certain diseases, such as rickets and inherited syphilis, and in developmental anomalies such as achondroplasia, dwarfing of the skeleton results from defective growth of bone at the ossifying junctions.
Partial displacement and mobility at theossifying junction may be observed.
The abscess is nearly always situated in the central axis of the bone in the region of the ossifying junction, although cases are occasionally met with in which it lies nearer the middle of the shaft.
Inflammation at the ossifying junction is included under the term osteomyelitis.
This arrangement favours the lodgment of any organisms that may be circulating in the blood, and partly accounts for the frequency with which diseases of bacterial origin develop in the region of the ossifying junction.
The extremities, which include the ossifying junctions, consist of spongy bone, the spaces of which are filled with red marrow.
When there is arrest of growth accompanying ankylosis, it usually depends on changes in the ossifying junctions caused by the original disease.
In all febrile conditions in children and adolescents, the ossifying junctions of the long bones should be examined for areas of pain and tenderness.
The ossifying sarcoma is met with most often in the femur and tibia, less frequently in the humerus, skull, pelvis, and jaws.
The basioccipital is the only bone on the floor of the skull ossifying that part into which the notochord is primitively continued[208].
Arrest of growth of the bone in length is a rare sequel, and when it occurs, it is due, not to premature union of the epiphysis with the shaft, but to diminished action at the ossifying junction.
In young subjects, for example, epiphysial lines may be mistaken for fractures, or the ossifying centres of epiphyses for separated fragments of bone.
Skiagrams show expansion of the bone in central tumours, or abundant new bone in ossifying sarcoma.
The observations of Macewen and of Mikulicz, and information afforded by the Röntgen rays, have shown that the primary cause of the deformity is an inequality of growth at the ossifying junction of the femur or tibia or of both.
Tuberculous foci in the bones are met with chiefly in the lower end of the diaphysis of the humerus; in children, the epiphyses are so small that the ossifying junction is intra-articular.
In young subjects, destruction of the tissues at the ossifying junction may result in considerable shortening of the arm.
The legs being abducted, the weight of the body falls unequally on the medial and lateral parts of the ossifying junctions, and inequality of growth results.
Does knowledge exert an acidulating influence upon female temper, or produce an ossifying effect on female hearts?
Did the wan meek shadow of his own patient much-suffering young mother lift her melancholy image in the long silent adytum of his proud heart, over whose chill chambers ambition and selfishness had passed with ossifying touch?
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