Did you know: 2 body parts that never stop growing?

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As we all know so far, the human body will develop continuously from the time it is a fetus and to adulthood it stops developing. But there are still two parts that never stop developing until death, which is which, let's find out through the article below.

1. Overview of human development

Growth and development are biological properties of living things, including humans. Human growth and development begins from the moment an egg cell is fertilized by a sperm. Development is, in essence, a process of quantitative and qualitative change that occurs within an organism.
Growth is the process of continuously increasing body mass by increasing the number of cells of the body, resulting in an increase in tissue mass, differentiation into organs and development of the whole body, thereby which from a zygote fertilized by sperm can initially develop into a fetus, then into an infant, a child, and then into an adult.
For the human body, the development of organs and parts takes place continuously until the individual reaches adulthood, then it will stop. However, there are still two parts of the body that persist until death.

2. Which two body parts never stop growing?

Those two parts are the ears and the nose, and it's also strange that both of these parts are located on the head.
When most body parts will begin to grow slowly and gradually stop growing (mostly after puberty ends), the ears and nose will continue to increase in size, causing the ears and nose to become larger. should be completely different from the rest of the body. This is explained by the composition of the ear and nose, which is the soft tissue that surrounds the cartilage, and it is these soft tissues that will continue to develop throughout a person's life. Therefore, in the elderly, we can see that the ratio of the size of the ears and nose to the face is quite large.

Some people may give other answers for the two parts that never stop growing, nails and hair, but we need to take into account the different genetic characteristics of each person.
One of the most obvious examples is people with genetic baldness, whose hair stops growing at a certain point, causing them to go bald. The ears and nose, therefore, seem to be the surest, most consistent, and most easily observable answer to the question of the two parts that never stop growing on the human body.
Article reference source: webmd.com