apophysisn.
/əˈpɒfɪsɪs/ 1. Physiology. A natural protuberance or process, arising from, and forming a continuous part of, a bone; esp. one of the processes on the spinal vertebræ.
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plectrum1792
buttress1824
epicondyle1828
spiculum1873
the world > life > the body > structural parts > bone or bones > spine > [noun] > vertebra of > processes of
apophysis1611
transverse process1696
axis1701
neurapophysis1840
parapophysis1846
pleurapophysis1848
haemapophysis1849
postzygapophysis1851
anapophysis1854
hypapophysis1854
zygapophysis1854
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1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Procés,..the Processe, Apophyse, or outstanding part of a bone.
1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica 181 Such [fish] as have the Apophyses of their spine made laterally like a combe.
1754 Philos. Trans. 1753 (Royal Soc.) 48 32 The rocky apophyse of the ear bone.
1847–9 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. IV. i. 370/2 The paramastoid apophysis is dilated.
2. Botany. A dilatation of the base of the theca or spore-case in some mosses.
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moutha1398
fimbria1752
calyptra1753
veil1760
lid1776
apophysis1785
operculum1788
peristoma1792
peristome1799
peristomium1806
hair-point1818
vaginula1818
perigynium1821
vaginule1821
gemma1830
paraphyllium1832
tympanum1832
perigon1857
pseudopodium1861
commissure1863
ocrea1863
cap1864
chaeta1866
struma1866
membranulet1891
pyxis1900
pseudopod1914
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1785 T. Martyn tr. J.-J. Rousseau Lett. Elements Bot. xxxii. 493 A kind of receptacle..called by Linnæus Apophysis, by Haller the Disk.
1863 M. J. Berkeley Handbk. Brit. Mosses iii. 22 In an early stage of growth..the apophysis belongs quite as much to the stem as the sporangium.
3. Geology. A branch from the main mass of an intrusive igneous rock.
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apophysis1888
1888 F. H. Hatch in J. J. H. Teall Brit. Petrogr. 424 Apophysis, a vein or branch from the main mass (boss or dyke) of an igneous rock.
1893 A. Geikie Geol. (ed. 3) iv. vii. 580 All over the world it is common for eruptive bosses of this rock to have a fringe of intrusive veins (Apophyses).
1925 N. E. Odell in E. F. Norton et al. Fight for Everest: 1924 293 Thoroughly metamorphosed and crystalline limestone resting on the schorl granite, which sent off apophyses into it.
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