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plate
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plate: see electron tube electron tube, device consisting of a sealed enclosure in which electrons flow between electrodes separated either by a vacuum (in a vacuum tube) or by an ionized gas at low pressure (in a gas tube).
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In addition, Pb has important in vivo effects on endochondral bone formation, as Pb-exposed mice and rats have altered growth plate morphology and decreased longitudinal growth (Gonzalez-Riola et al.
8) Active cysts have been defined as those in direct contact with the adjacent growth plate in the skeletally immature patient, and inactive ones are those found at a distance from the growth plate.
After a stress fracture was discovered along the growth plate of his left hip, Turner hobbled on crutches nearly four months before it was discovered the bones had separated by seven millimeters.
 
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