anaplerosisn.
The filling up of a deficiency.
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the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > surgery > prosthesis > [noun] > filling up of deficiency
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the world > existence and causation > existence > substantiality or concreteness > unsubstantiality or abstractness > [noun] > unsubstantiality or lack of substance > something lacking substance > mere appearance or image of something > that helps fill up deficiency of form
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1680 H. More Apocalypsis Apocalypseos 258 Respecting the voices of the three Angels, and Anapleroses of them.
1706 Phillips's New World of Words (ed. 6) Anaplerosis..in Surgery, that part of the Art, which restores what either Nature has denied, or is otherwise decayed.
1853 R. G. Mayne Expos. Lexicon Med. Sci. (1860) Anaplerosis..filling up of parts that have been destroyed, as in wounds, cicatrices, etc.
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