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Webster 1913 Edition
Apophysis
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A-poph′y-sis
,Noun.
pl.
-ses
. [NL., fr. Gr. [GREEK] offshoot, process of a bone, fr. [GREEK] to grow from; [GREEK] from + [GREEK], [GREEK], to grow.]
1.
(Anat.)
A marked prominence or process on any part of a bone.
2.
(Bot.)
An enlargement at the top of a pedicel or stem, as seen in certain mosses.
Gray.
Webster 1828 Edition
Apophysis
APOPH'YSIS
,Definition 2024
apophysis
apophysis
English
Noun
apophysis (plural apophyses)
- (anatomy) A natural outgrowth, swelling or enlargement, usually of an organism; A protuberance on a bone.
- 1836, E. A. Poe, Maelzel's Chess-Player
- Every bone in the real duck had its representative in the automaton, and its wings were anatomically exact. Every cavity, apophysis, and curvature was imitated, and each bone executed its proper movements.
- 1836, E. A. Poe, Maelzel's Chess-Player
- (geology) A branch of a dike or vein
- 1980, U.S. Government Printing Office, Geological Survey Professional Paper, Volume 1119
- Minor palingenetic magmas probably were generated at this time and intruded the mantling rocks in the form of small sills and apophyses; [...]
- 1980, U.S. Government Printing Office, Geological Survey Professional Paper, Volume 1119
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Translations
outgrowth