Apophysis vs Paraphysis - What's the difference?
apophysis | paraphysis |
(anatomy) A natural outgrowth, swelling or enlargement, usually of an organism; A protuberance on a bone.
* 1836 , E. A. Poe,
(geology) A branch of a dike or vein
* 1980 , U.S. Government Printing Office,
(botany) A minute jointed filament growing among the archegonia and antheridia of mosses, or with the spore cases, etc., of other flowerless plants.
(Webster 1913)
As nouns the difference between apophysis and paraphysis
is that apophysis is a natural outgrowth, swelling or enlargement, usually of an organism; A protuberance on a bone while paraphysis is a minute jointed filament growing among the archegonia and antheridia of mosses, or with the spore cases, etc., of other flowerless plants.apophysis
English
Noun
(apophyses)- Every bone in the real duck had its representative in the automaton, and its wings were anatomically exact. Every cavity, apophysis , and curvature was imitated, and each bone executed its proper movements.
Geological Survey Professional Paper, Volume 1119
- Minor palingenetic magmas probably were generated at this time and intruded the mantling rocks in the form of small sills and apophyses ; [...]
