单词 | diaphysis |
释义 | diaphysisn. 1. Anatomy. ‘The shaft of a long bone, as distinct from the extremities’ ( New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon). ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > structural parts > bone or bones > bones of arm or leg > [noun] > parts of shaft1748 diaphysis1828 metaphysis1913 1828 R. Knox tr. H. Cloquet Syst. Human Anat. 11 Their extremities are enlarged, and their middle part, which is named body or diaphysis [Fr. diaphyse], is contracted. 1890 W. J. Walsham Surg. (ed. 3) iii. 184 Twenty-one years of age, the period at which nearly all the epiphyses have united with their diaphyses. 1891 Lancet 3 Oct. 768 When amputation is done in the diaphysis the bone keeps on growing from its upper epiphysis. Categories » 2. Botany. ‘A præternatural extension of the centre of the flower, or of an inflorescence’ ( Treasury Bot. 1866). Derivatives diaˈphysial adj. of or pertaining to the diaphysis. (In modern dictionaries.) This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online June 2018). < n.1828 |
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