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diaphysis|daɪˈæfɪsɪs|
[ad. Gr. διάϕυσις a growing through, also a point of separation, f. δια- through, apart + ϕύειν to produce, bring forth.]
1. Anat. ‘The shaft of a long bone, as distinct from the extremities’ (Syd. Soc. Lex.).
1831R. Knox Cloquet's Anat. 11 Their extremities are enlarged, and their middle part, which is named body or diaphysis, is contracted. 1890W. J. Walsham Surgery (ed. 3) iii. 184 Twenty-one years of age, the period at which nearly all the epiphyses have united with their diaphyses. 1891Lancet 3 Oct. 768 When amputation is done in the diaphysis the bone keeps on growing from its upper epiphysis.
2. Bot. ‘A præternatural extension of the centre of the flower, or of an inflorescence’ (Treas. Bot. 1866).
Hence diaˈphysial a., of or pertaining to the diaphysis.
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