diaphysis

plural diaphyses

1. anatomyThe central shaft of any long bone.

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   Many studies that use subperiosteal new bone as a stress indicator fail to specify how they deal with this problem. Others offer a range of solutions, for example, limiting study to adolescents and adults[…], excluding perinates and infants[…], including all ages from birth onwards but only considering lesions in the middle third of the diaphysis[…], or making case-by-case judgmental decisions in young individuals[…].

   2023, Simon Mays, “The Macroscopic Study of Human Skeletal Paleopathology” (chapter 2), in The Routledge Handbook of Paleopathology, Routledge, →DOI, →ISBN, page 30

2. biologyAn abnormal elongation of the axis of a flower or of an inflorescence.