explain how a doctor can use an xray of your hand to determine if you are finished growing or not.(full 10p)?

Question

u'll get 10 points if u answer my whole question!

Answer 1

It's to see if the bones are closed up yet.

Answer 2

There are "growth plates" at the end of bones, especially obvious in the "long bones", but also obvious in the "not-so-long" bones, like the sections of bone in your hands and feet.
This is the section of the bone that is actually "growing". Bones do not grow like a tree, they grow from the ends of the bone. When the bone has finished growing, it starts to fill this area in with Calcium, which makes it much stronger that it was, and appears more like solid bone. Especially noticable in the skull bones of a child. Obviously a child's brain grows as it ages, up to a point, and at that point, the bone sections merge solidly, to form one large skull bone.

The radiologist, or the physician, or Chiropractor, that ordered the xray, will view the film from the x-ray. The actual x-ray having most likely been taken by a certified x-ray technician who will shoot the rays through the hand, painless thank dog, and the film below the hand will show the x-rays that came throught the hand easily, and will also show the bones that blocked a substantial amount of the x-rays from penetrating the hand easily. The x-rays can pass through the sections of the bones that have not formed completely solid, yet, which just so happens to be the "growth plates". If no x-rays get through the "growth plates" the bones are mature and no longer growing longer.

Dog only knows what else you might want to know in order to offer an additional 10 points, unless...no, the penis does not have growth plates.

Hope this helped a bit. Somebody out there certainly knows the answer and can put it into x-ray technician language or radiologist language. I put it in a language that EMT's and firefighters can readily grasp.

Ricky

Answer 3

Children's bones are mostly cartilage. There's something on the ends of long bones called the epiphyseal disc that causes the cartilage to grow. A doctor can probably tell if the epiphyseal disc is finished with making the cartilage grow by looking at the x-ray. Also, once the cartilage stops growing it ossifies (becomes bone), and a doctor could probably see that in the x-ray as well--the finger bones will be fully calcified if the person has stopped growing.

Answer 4

Doctors can do that because you hand shows in what stage of growth you are. When all of your bones in your hand are all in the right positions then your done growing.

Answer 5

When you are done growing your growth plates will appear closed on an Xray.

Answer 6

Because kids have growth plates in their bodies, and when the plates are all fused then your done growing. That is why kids are so flexible.