Anatomy & Physiology › Section F · Bone tissue › Topic F.3
Bone formation and development
Every bone begins as something softer, a sheet of embryonic tissue or a small model of cartilage, and is rebuilt as bone over years. Understanding the two ways bone forms, and how growth plates lengthen bones until adulthood, explains how the skeleton grows and why it keeps renewing itself for life.
In this topic
- Bone replaces a template
- Cartilage as a template
- Intramembranous ossification
- Endochondral ossification: the shaft
- Endochondral ossification: the ends
- Worked example: ordering the steps
- How bones grow in length
- Worked example: reading a growth plate
- How bones grow in diameter
- Modelling and remodelling
- Common mistakes to avoid
- Key takeaways
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