hemapophysis
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edithemapophysis (plural hemapophyses)
- (anatomy) The second element in each half of a hemal arch, corresponding to the sternal part of a rib.
- 1848, Richard Owen, On the Archetype and Homologies of the Vertebrate Skeleton:
- The bones, 39 and 40, represent the hemapophysis of the parieto-hæmal arch.
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edit“hemapophysis”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.