bone age
Growth plate assessment
Bone age is a measure of skeletal maturity, determined by X-raying a child's hand and wrist and comparing the development of bones to standard references.
Pediatricians use bone age to assess growth disorders and predict adult height: Her bone age is two years behind her chronological age.
A child whose bone age lags behind their actual age may have delayed puberty or a growth hormone deficiency.
clinical
Conditions impairing normal development
- endocrinologyScience of hormonal glands
- pubertySexual development stage
- delayed pubertyUnusually late adolescent development
- precocious pubertyPremature onset of sexual development
assessment
Penetrating diagnostic beam
- radiographImage from radiation exposure
- ossificationConversion to bone tissue
- growth platesCartilage enabling bone lengthening
- carpalWrist anatomy term
growth disorders
Conditions impairing normal development
- endocrinologyScience of hormonal glands
- pubertySexual development stage
- delayed pubertyUnusually late adolescent development
precocious puberty · short stature · growth hormone · hypothyroidism
X-ray
Penetrating diagnostic beam
- radiographImage from radiation exposure
- ossificationConversion to bone tissue
- growth platesCartilage enabling bone lengthening
carpal · metacarpal · phalangeal · left hand
- growthgrowth, grow, growing, growth rate, increase
- growth assessmentheight, weight chart, height measurement, growth chart, growth charts
- pubertypuberty, voice cracking, adolescence, growth spurts, body hair
- Bone Testsdensitometer, lumbar spine, follow-up scan
- skeletal analysishuman remains, osteology, sex determination, growth plates, ossification
- measurementsheight, stature, meters, depth, pound