A recent article by Beals and Weleber ( 2007 ) also noted that a majority of patients also have small capital femoral epiphyses ( the very tops of the femur where it hits the hip socket ) and / or mild abnormalities of the promixal femoral metaphysis.
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The children had chronic renal failure and the epiphyses of their fingers were cone-shaped and protruded into the metaphysis; some also had retinitis pigmentosa ( also called RP, a progressive degeneration of the retina which affects night vision and peripheral vision ) or ataxia ( an inability to coordinate muscular movements ).
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In terms of its medical application as relating to bones, "-physis " can also mean " to grow . " Specifically, as the term pertains to musculoskeletal medicine and orthopedics, " physis " refers to the region of a long bone between the epiphysis and the metaphysis, or in lay terminology, the " growth plate ".
