APOPHYSIS
\ɐpˈɒfəsˌɪs], \ɐpˈɒfəsˌɪs], \ɐ_p_ˈɒ_f_ə_s_ˌɪ_s]\
Definitions of APOPHYSIS
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1920 - A dictionary of scientific terms.
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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By Princeton University
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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A marked prominence or process on any part of a bone.
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An enlargement at the top of a pedicel or stem, as seen in certain mosses.
By Oddity Software
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A marked prominence or process on any part of a bone.
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An enlargement at the top of a pedicel or stem, as seen in certain mosses.
By Noah Webster.
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An outgrowth or projection, especially one from a bone. A bony process or outgrowth which has not an independent center of ossification.
By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop
By William R. Warner
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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In anat., a process or protuberance on the surface of a bone, generally at the ends; in bot., any irregular swelling on the surface; a tubercle at the base of the seed-vessel of certain mosses.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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Process from a bone, usually for muscle attachment; a swelling at the base of the capsule in some mosses; Small protuberance at apex of an ovuliferous scale in female cone of pine.
By Henderson, I. F.; Henderson, W. D.
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When the apophysis is yet separated from the body of the bone by intervening cartilage, it is called Epiphysis. The apophyses or processes are, at times, distinguished by epithets, expressive of their form: as A. styloid, A. coracoid, &c. Others are not preceded by the word apophysis; as Trochanter, Tuberosity, &c.
By Robley Dunglison
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
