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Definition of Epiphyses
1. epiphysis [n] - See also: epiphysis
Medical Definition of Epiphyses
1. A part of a long bone where growth bone growth occurs from. (27 Sep 1997)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Epiphyses
Literary usage of Epiphyses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Treatment of fractures: With Notes Upon a Few Common Dislocations by Charles Locke Scudder (1915)
"The importance of an exact knowledge of the epiphyses to those having to do with
... The book by John Poland upon "Traumatic Separation of the epiphyses. ..."
2. Anatomy, Descriptive and Applied by Henry Gray (1913)
"The times of union of the epiphyses with the body vary inversely with the dates
at which their ossifications began (with the exception of the fibula) and ..."
3. The Journal of Anatomy and Physiology (1907)
"FURTHER REMARKS ON TRACTION epiphyses. By FG PARSONS, FRCS, Lecturer on Anatomy
at St Thomas's Hospital and the London School of Medicine for Women. ..."
4. Treatise on Fractures in General, Industrial, and Military Practice by John Bingham Roberts, James Alphonsus Kelly (1921)
"The epiphyses or secondary centres help to form the extremities of the long bones
... The secondary centres in the epiphyses appear after birth, ..."
5. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1893)
"1697), calls attention to the fact that injuries to the epiphyses is more frequent
than is usually taught. He bases his observation on 350 cases, ..."
6. Surgery, Gynecology & Obstetrics by The American College of Surgeons, Franklin H. Martin Memorial Foundation (1913)
"The epiphyses and articular surfaces of the bone were not affected. F'S- 35 (Case
7). Skiagram made three months after transplantation of a six-inch ..."
7. The Anatomy of the human skeleton by Henry Morris, John Ernest Frazer (1914)
"(3) Th^third kind includes those epiphyses which represent parts of the ...
These may be termed atavistic epiphyses ana include such epiphyses as the ..."
8. The Treatment of fractures: With Notes Upon a Few Common Dislocations by Charles Locke Scudder (1915)
"The importance of an exact knowledge of the epiphyses to those having to do with
... The book by John Poland upon "Traumatic Separation of the epiphyses. ..."
9. Anatomy, Descriptive and Applied by Henry Gray (1913)
"The times of union of the epiphyses with the body vary inversely with the dates
at which their ossifications began (with the exception of the fibula) and ..."
10. The Journal of Anatomy and Physiology (1907)
"FURTHER REMARKS ON TRACTION epiphyses. By FG PARSONS, FRCS, Lecturer on Anatomy
at St Thomas's Hospital and the London School of Medicine for Women. ..."
11. Treatise on Fractures in General, Industrial, and Military Practice by John Bingham Roberts, James Alphonsus Kelly (1921)
"The epiphyses or secondary centres help to form the extremities of the long bones
... The secondary centres in the epiphyses appear after birth, ..."
12. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1893)
"1697), calls attention to the fact that injuries to the epiphyses is more frequent
than is usually taught. He bases his observation on 350 cases, ..."
13. Surgery, Gynecology & Obstetrics by The American College of Surgeons, Franklin H. Martin Memorial Foundation (1913)
"The epiphyses and articular surfaces of the bone were not affected. F'S- 35 (Case
7). Skiagram made three months after transplantation of a six-inch ..."
14. The Anatomy of the human skeleton by Henry Morris, John Ernest Frazer (1914)
"(3) Th^third kind includes those epiphyses which represent parts of the ...
These may be termed atavistic epiphyses ana include such epiphyses as the ..."
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