The nurse is aware that long bones in children continue to grow until puberty when:
a. Cartilage is ossified
b. Connective tissue is diminished
c. Epiphyseal fusion occurs
d. Bone is no longer synthesized
C
Bones begin as connective tissue and then are converted into cartilage. At puberty, epiphyseal fusion ends the growth of the long bones.
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