bone marrow is the connective tissue that covers the epiphyses of a long bone.
what is the connective tissue that covers the epiphyses of a long bone?
bone marrow
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the epiphyseal plate (or epiphysial plate, physis, or growth plate) is a hyaline cartilage plate in the metaphysis at each end of a long bone. it is the part of a long bone where new bone growth takes place; that is, the whole bone is alive, with maintenance remodeling throughout its existing bone tissue, but the growth plate is the place where the long bone grows longer (adds length).
epiphyseal plate
connective tissue can be broadly subdivided into connective tissue proper, and special connective tissue. connective tissue proper consists of loose connective tissue and dense connective tissue (which is further subdivided into dense regular and dense irregular connective tissues.) loose and dense connective tissue are distinguished by the ratio of ground substance to fibrous tissue. loose connective tissue has much more ground substance and a relative lack of fibrous tissue, while the reverse is true of dense connective tissue. dense regular connective tissue, found in structures such as tendons and ligaments, is characterized by collagen fibers arranged in an orderly parallel fashion, giving it tensile strength in one direction. dense irregular connective tissue provides strength in multiple directions by its dense bundles of fibers arranged in all directions.
connective tissue