apophysis

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.

As nouns the difference between apophyses and apophysis

is that apophyses is while apophysis is (anatomy) a natural outgrowth, swelling or enlargement, usually of an organism; a protuberance on a bone.

In anatomy terms the difference between apodeme and apophysis

is that apodeme is an ingrowth of the arthropod exoskeleton, serving as an attachment site for muscles while apophysis is a natural outgrowth, swelling or enlargement, usually of an organism; A protuberance on a bone.

As nouns the difference between apophysis and apophasis

is that apophysis is (anatomy) a natural outgrowth, swelling or enlargement, usually of an organism; a protuberance on a bone while apophasis is (rhetoric) an allusion to something by denying that it will be mentioned.

As nouns the difference between taxonomy and apophysis

is that taxonomy is the science or the technique used to make a classification while apophysis is (anatomy) a natural outgrowth, swelling or enlargement, usually of an organism; a protuberance on a bone.

In anatomy terms the difference between apophysis and epiphysis

is that apophysis is a natural outgrowth, swelling or enlargement, usually of an organism; A protuberance on a bone while epiphysis is the pineal gland.