Meanings
- not comparableanatomyRelating to the physis.
1 more example
In fact, adolescents are at a higher risk of epiphysiodesis but with little clinical consequences in terms of growth disturbances, whereas young children are at a lower risk of epiphysiodesis but sometimes with dramatic clinical consequences if the physeal bridge persists and continues to develop until the end of growth.
2015 May 10, Romain Seil, Frederick K Weitz, Dietrich Pape, “Surgical-experimental principles of anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) reconstruction with open growth plates”, in Journal of Experimental Orthopaedics, volume 2, →DOI
Origin
By surface analysis, physis + -al; diachronically, via New Latin; the morphology is influenced by the source word's native inflections, as is true of many other words descended from Latin and Greek.
Full word history & related roots →Rhymes & wordplay
Anagrams
Cite this entry
physeal. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/physeal
“physeal.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/physeal. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “physeal,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/physeal.
Source: physeal on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.