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Zone of resting cartilage |
This layer is nearest the epiphysael and consists of small scattered chondrocytes |
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Zone of proliferating cartilage |
Slightly larger chondrocytes in this zone they are arranged like stacks of coins |
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Zone of hypertrophic cartilage |
This layer consists of large maturing chondrocytes arranged in columns |
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Zone of calcified cartilage |
The final zone of the epiphysael plate is only a few cells sick and consists mostly of chondrocytes that are dead because the extarcellular matrix around them has calcified |
