METAPHYSIS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does metaphysis mean? 

• 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.

 Dictionary entry details 

• METAPHYSIS (noun)

Sense 1

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)

 Context examples 

A common, benign cartiliginous neoplasm arising from the metaphysis of bone.

(Osteochondroma, NCI Thesaurus)

A benign, lytic neoplasm usually arising from the cartilage in epiphysis and metaphysis of bone.

(Chondroblastoma, NCI Thesaurus)

The metaphyses develop benign, bony outgrowths often capped by cartilage.

(Hereditary Multiple Exostoses, NCI Thesaurus)