Photo Gallery - The Growth Plate Story - Three Year Old
This gallery features representative cervical (neck) & thoracic (back) vertebrae from a 3-year-old mare. Refer to the "Skeletal Development" page for explanations of the ossification process.
At this age, the physes capping the cranial end of the centrum (vertebral body) are attached but mineralization is not complete as indicated by remnants of the physeal line. The physes that cap the caudal end growth plate (cartilage) of ALL the vertebrae are still detachable.
