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OCR: How Do YOUR BONES GRoW? HEN BABY is in its mother's uterus, tough, flexible Where growth occurs material called cartilage begins to form grow W As here the harder baby grows, bones ev cartilage ventually Bone head IS continually replaced with bone in process called ossification. This Bone takes place in the shafts and heads of all bones Once hardened, your shaft bones continue to lengthen until you are about 20 years old. ADOI ESCENT The bones of an eleven year are still increasing in length, filling the spaces in between the bone heads and the bone shafts. to The adolescent's and Less space bones are continuing ossify between to grow larger. bone heads and shafts KD How the bones in BABY INFANT ADLESCENT ADULT your hand develop eventually continuall ossifi ication