A 40-year-old male undergoes a type of bone growth known as appositional growth. This growth produces an increase in the diameter of bones.
Appositional growth is a type of bone growth caused by the addition of new bone tissue layers at the surface of the bones.
In appositional growth, the cartilage grows in its diameter by the addition of extracellular matrix on the peripheral cartilage surface.
During this process, cartilage-forming cells secrete more extracellular matrix against the external side of the cartilage tissue.
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