Medical Definition of Physis
1. A term sometimes used in referring to the epiphysial cartilage. Origin: G. Growth (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Physis
Literary usage of Physis
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Magazine of Horticulture, Botany, and All Useful Discoveries and edited by Charles Mason Hovey (1839)
"PHYsIS. ART. II. Journal of the Essex County Natural History Society. Vol. I.
No. 2. pp. 107. Salem, 1839. The efforts of this young and flourishing Society ..."
2. The Class-book of Etymology: Designed to Promote Precision in the Use, and by James Lynd (1854)
"Perverse, perversion, perversity, pervert. Physiognomy. physis ... physis; anthropos.
Physic, physician. physis. ..."
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