PRESENTER:'Long bones, such as your thigh bone, or femur, grow in length at either end, in regions called growth plates. Growth happens when cartilage cells increase in number in these growth plates.

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As children grow and develop, long bones such as the femur progressively elongate at each end. These growing ends – areas of smooth, elastic cartilage known as ‘growth plates’ – eventually solidify ...