physeal

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Etymology

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By surface analysis, physis +‎ -al; diachronically, via New Latin; the morphology is influenced by the source word's native inflections, as is true of many other words descended from Latin and Greek.

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physeal (not comparable)

  1. (anatomy) Relating to the physis.
    • 2015 May 10, Romain Seil, Frederick K Weitz, Dietrich Pape, “Surgical-experimental principles of anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) reconstruction with open growth plates”, in Journal of Experimental Orthopaedics[1], volume 2, →DOI:
      In fact, adolescents are at a higher risk of epiphysiodesis but with little clinical consequences in terms of growth disturbances, whereas young children are at a lower risk of epiphysiodesis but sometimes with dramatic clinical consequences if the physeal bridge persists and continues to develop until the end of growth.

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