<prompt> Decreased mineralization of Epiphyseal plate in a growing child is seen in -RicketsOsteomalaciaScurvyOsteoporosis  <response>: Defective mineralization is seen in both rickets and osteomalacia.However, the question is about defective mineralization in the Epiphyseal plate growth platephysics in a growing child, which is seen in rickets.Osteomalacia is a disease of the mature skeleton when physis epiphyseal plate has already been fused. There is no physics epiphyseal plate in a mature bone. 