Usually means: Ends of long bones; growth.
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General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. epiphysis: Merriam-Webster
  2. epiphysis: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. epiphysis: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. epiphysis: Collins English Dictionary
  5. epiphysis: Vocabulary.com
  6. epiphysis: Wordnik
  7. epiphysis: Wiktionary
  8. epiphysis: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. epiphysis: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. epiphysis: Dictionary.com
  11. Epiphysis: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Epiphysis: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. epiphysis: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. epiphysis: Rhymezone
  15. Epiphysis: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. epiphysis: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  17. epiphysis: FreeDictionary.org
  18. epiphysis: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. epiphysis: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. epiphysis: Encyclopedia

Medicine (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. epiphysis: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Epiphysis: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  4. epiphysis: Sound Alike Words
  5. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  6. Probert Encyclopaedia of Medicine (No longer online)
  7. Epiphysis: Gray's Anatomy (1918)
  8. National MCH Center for Child Death Review (No longer online)
  9. Neurotrauma Glossary (No longer online)
  10. epiphysis: Medical Etymology Anatomy
  11. Glossary of Skeletal Anatomy (No longer online)
  12. epiphysis: Medical dictionary
  13. Epiphysis: Drug Medical Dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (epiphysis)

noun:  (anatomy) The pineal gland.
noun:  (anatomy) The rounded end of any long bone.
noun:  (zoology) A small upper piece of each half of an alveolus of a sea urchin.

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