Emily Dickinson Lexicon

E-PIPH'Y-SIS, or E-PIPH'Y-SY, n. [Gr. επιφυσις; επι and φυω, to grow.]

Accretion; the natural growing of one bone to another by simple contiguity, without a proper articulation. Quincy. The spungy extremity of a bone; any portion of a bone growing to another, but originally separated from it by a cartilage. Coxe. Epiphyses are appendixes of the long bones, for the purpose of articulation, formed from a distinct center of ossification, and in the young subject connected with the larger bones by an intervening cartilage, which in the adult is obliterated. Parr.