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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Aug 25.
Published in final edited form as: J Biomech. 2009 Jun 21;42(12):1793–1803. doi: 10.1016/j.jbiomech.2009.05.021

Figure 3.

Figure 3

Bone growth increment associated with the creation of a new chondrocyte in the proliferative zone followed by chondrocytic hypertrophy (A to B), and eventual ossification of the fully enlarged cell having height hmax (B to C). Here a single column of cells and its matrix domain is considered before and after this cycle of events. Daily growth typically includes several of these cycles.