Sentence:  With due consideration for the limits of precision in assessing , expected rate of change in ossification of girls age 2 years , and the known variations in rate of ossification of these children as described in our preceding paper in the Supplement , each arrow with a `` shaft length '' of four months or less was selected as indicating `` same schedule '' at Onset and Completion , for this particular <WSD>epiphysis</WSD> . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  the end of a long bone; initially separated from the main bone by a layer of cartilage that eventually ossifies so the parts become fused