Examples from literature

• In paralysed limbs the growth from the epiphyses is usually little short of the normal. 
• In the acute arthritis of infants, the epiphysis concerned may be separated and displaced. 
• In the upper limb the more active epiphyses are at the shoulder and wrist, and these also are the last to unite. 
• Separation of an epiphysis nearly always results in infection and destruction of the adjacent joint. 
• The epiphyses are nourished by a separate system of blood vessels, derived from the arteries which supply the adjacent joint.