And children's immature bones have soft areas that are common sites of injury.

This is owing in large part to the thick fiborous periosteum of immature bone.

Because of these misattributions and Lamberton's use of the immature bones, his reconstruction was inaccurate.

The study showed that the virus can infect and grow in very immature bone marrow cells, which show no characteristics of the mature cells they will eventually become.

Osteoblasts are the immature bone cells, and eventually become entrapped in the bone matrix to become osteocytes- the mature bone cell.

In this disease there is a cyclical resorption of normal bone and replacement by immature bone along the inner and outer surfaces of the affected bones.

It binds collagen and hydroxyapatite through separate areas of its molecule, is found in relatively large amounts in immature bone and promotes mineralization of collagen.

The goals of the professional athlete are intertwined with contractual obligations and a lifetime commitment to one sport, and are not appropriate for the growing athlete with immature bones and joints.

'Skeletal maturing' means that bone is laid down in the tissue that forms the immature bone shape gradually until adult bone is achieved at about the age of seventeen years in the feet.

In the first three years in a horse's life, adequate hoof development stems mainly from stimulation of the hoof receptors during normal exercise and turn out; however, the intense training experienced by two-year old racehorses puts excess stress on the immature bone structure.