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Green stick fracture, rickets
Credit: Unknown
Digital Credit: Melissa Foster
Publisher: None
Rights: No rights reserved - image is in the public domain
Description: The diet of this growing chick contained insufficient vitamin D to allow normal calcification of the elongating bones. This inadequate mineralization produced soft cartilaginous bones that bend rather than breaking cleanly, hence a green stick fracture of this femur.
Resolution: 2707x1694
File Size: 3.07 MB