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Definition of Apophysis

1. Noun. (botany) a natural swelling or enlargement: at the base of the stalk or seta in certain mosses or on the cone scale of certain conifers.

2. Noun. (anatomy) a natural outgrowth or projection on an organ or body part such as the process of a vertebra.

Definition of Apophysis

1. n. A marked prominence or process on any part of a bone.

Definition of Apophysis

1. Noun. (anatomy) A natural outgrowth, swelling or enlargement, usually of an organism; A protuberance on a bone. ¹

2. Noun. (geology) A branch of a dike or vein ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Apophysis

1. [n -PHYSES]

Medical Definition of Apophysis

1. 1. A marked prominence or process on any part of a bone. 2. An enlargement at the top of a pedicel or stem, as seen in certain mosses. Origin: NL, fr. Gr. Offshoot, process of a bone, fr. To grow from; from +, to grow. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

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Lexicographical Neighbors of Apophysis

apophthegmatic apophthegmatical apophthegms apophyge apophyges apophylaxis apophyllite apophyllites apophysary apophyse

apophyseal apophyses apophysial apophysial fracture apophysial point apophysis (current term) apophysis conchae apophysis helicis apophysitis apophysitis tibialis adolescentium

apophyte apophytes apoplasmia apoplast apoplastic apoplasts apoplectic apoplectic cyst apoplectic retinitis apoplectical

Literary usage of Apophysis

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1. The Spider Book: A Manual for the Study of the Spiders and Their Near by John Henry Comstock (1912)
"Clavis = median apophysis Petiole of the bulb, pet. Conductor of the embolus, ... Terminal apophysis, ta Fundus of the receptaculum seminis,/M. Tibia, t. ..."

2. The Principal forms of the skeleton and the teeth: As the Basis for a System by Richard Owen (1855)
"m (Gr. meta, between, and apophysis), ... 5), y (Gr. hypo, below, and apophysis), ... 4), e (Gr. epi, above, and apophysis). Of the autogenous parts, ..."

3. A Practical treatise on fractures and dislocations by Lewis Atterbury Stimson (1899)
"Avulsion of an apophysis, or of a scale of bone, by muscular action is a far more ... The lesion consists in the fracture of an apophysis at its base, ..."

4. Organography of Plants, Especially of the Archegoniata and Spermaphyta by Karl Eberhard Goebel (1905)
"Polytrichum commune. r/tt a small portion of the part of the stem bearing rhizoids; J, seta; c, calyptra; ap^ apophysis ; a, operculum. Natural size. ..."

5. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1901)
"(X*l5u PINUS long, chocolate-brown ; apophysis low- pyramidal, umbo elongated and reflexed with short spiny tip: seeds % in. long, short-winged. S.Calif. ..."

6. The London Medical Gazette (1833)
"... maxillary none " Its parietes were formed by two compact plates of this apophysis. The immediate cause of the disease was evidently an inverted tooth. ..."

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