epiphysial in English
adjective
of the epiphysis, of the end of a bone which ossifies separately and later joins with the main bone (Anatomy)
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1. Handlings are given to differentiate the “stippled epiphyses” from the achondroplasia, the dysplasia epiphysialis multiplex and the cretinoid epiphysial dysgenesis.
2. N Apophysis In anatomy: Any process of bone; an out-growth of bone; a mere projection or protuberance, which has no independent ossific center, and is thus distinguished from an epiphysis (which see); specifically, any process of a vertebra, whether it has such a center, and thus is epiphysial in nature, or not: in the former case, a vertebral Apophysis is called autogenous or endogenous; in