epiphysis

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 human body.

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 29 typed relationships for it, across 4 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, distal epiphysis of distal phalanx of manual digit 1, distal epiphysis of distal phalanx of manual digit 2, distal epiphysis of distal phalanx of manual digit 3, distal epiphysis of distal phalanx of manual digit 4 and distal epiphysis of distal phalanx of manual digit 5, and 19 more.
• contains: bone tissue of epiphysis and periosteum of epiphysis.
• 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?

Leumas holds the same relationship vocabulary for every species it carries, so where another dataset records this structure you can put the two side by side on /compare.