epiphysis in dogs

The head of a long bone that articulates with a neighboring skeletal element and is separated from the shaft by the epiphyseal plate until bone growth stops. At that time, the plate disappears and the head and shaft are united[MESH,modified]. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the epiphysis is

The head of a long bone that articulates with a neighboring skeletal element and is separated from the shaft by the epiphyseal plate until bone growth stops. At that time, the plate disappears and the head and shaft are united[MESH,modified]. The atlas records it as a bone at the organ scale in the dog.

Where the epiphysis is

It sits within the skeletal system. Only the system is known. The position shown carries almost no spatial information.

What the epiphysis connects to

The atlas records 24 typed relationships for it, across 3 kinds of connection. a kind of zone of long bone.

Supply and innervation

This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the epiphysis. Only a minority of structures carry those edges here, so an empty answer means nothing has been recorded — not that there is nothing to record.

Also called

Also recorded as bone epiphysis, end of long bone, epiphyses and long bone epiphysis. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0001437, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• A kind of: zone of long bone.
• subtype: distal epiphysis of femur, distal epiphysis of fibula, distal epiphysis of humerus, distal epiphysis of metacarpal bone, distal epiphysis of radius and distal epiphysis of tibia, and 16 more.
• contributes to morphology of: long bone.

Questions

Where is the epiphysis?

It sits within the skeletal system. Only the system is known. The position shown carries almost no spatial information.

What does the epiphysis connect to?

A kind of: zone of long bone.

Is the epiphysis the same in other species?

This page describes the dog. The human record of the same structure sits beside it on /compare, over one shared model rather than two atlases built separately.