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Epiphysis   Listen
noun
Epiphysis  n.  (pl. epiphyses)  (Anat.)
(a)
The end, or other superficial part, of a bone, which ossifies separately from the central portion, or diaphysis.
(b)
The cerebral epiphysis, or pineal gland. See Pineal gland, under Pineal.





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"Epiphysis" Quotes from Famous Books



... at this age; but because young dogs are more exposed to fall from the hands of the persons who carry them, and from the places to which they climb; and the extremities of the bones, then being in the state of epiphysis, are easily separated from the body of the bone. When the fracture takes place in the body of the bone, it is transverse or somewhat oblique, but there is ...
— The Dog - A nineteenth-century dog-lovers' manual, - a combination of the essential and the esoteric. • William Youatt


Words linked to "Epiphysis" :   os longum, epiphyseal, pineal body, epiphysial, endocrine gland, ductless gland, long bone


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