EPIPHYSIS
\ɛpˈɪfəsˌɪs], \ɛpˈɪfəsˌɪs], \ɛ_p_ˈɪ_f_ə_s_ˌɪ_s]\
Definitions of EPIPHYSIS
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 2010 - Medical Dictionary Database
- 1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard 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 Oddity Software
By Noah Webster.
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The head of a long bone that is separated from the shaft by the epiphyseal plate until bone growth stops. At that time, the plate disappears and the head and shaft are united.
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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1. A part of a long bone developed from a center of ossification distinct from that of the shaft and separated at first from the latter by a layer of cartilage. 2. The pineal body or conarium, corpus pineale.
By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop
By William R. Warner
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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Any part or process of a bone which is formed from a separate centre of ossification and later fuses with the bone ; the pineal body; a stout bar firmly fused to the alveolus of each jaw and articulating with the rotulae in sea-urchins ; certain of the processes on the tibia of insects.
By Henderson, I. F.; Henderson, W. D.
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Any portion of a bone, separated from the body of the bone by a cartilage, which becomes converted into bone by age. The epiphysis of the foetus becomes the apophysis of the adult.
By Robley Dunglison
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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