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METAPHYSIS

• METAPHYSIS (noun)
The noun METAPHYSIS has 1 sense:

1. the growing part of a long bone between the diaphysis and the epiphysis

Familiarity information: METAPHYSIS used as a noun is very rare.

• METAPHYSIS (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

The growing part of a long bone between the diaphysis and the epiphysis

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Hypernyms ("metaphysis" is a kind of...):

appendage; outgrowth; process (a natural prolongation or projection from a part of an organism either animal or plant)

Holonyms ("metaphysis" is a part of...):

long bone; os longum (in limbs of vertebrate animals: a long cylindrical bone that contains marrow)

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