The diaphysis is the main or midsection (shaft) of a long bone.
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Examples for "shaft"
Examples for "shaft"
1Over the mountains in the east came the first shaft of day.
2This was the farthest point from the shaft in the entire mine.
3Used four times at the base of the shaft near the tower.
4She almost didn't see it in time- averticalshaft yawning directly ahead.
5A minute later, ballast men slide into view in the secondary shaft.
1A segment of diaphysis had recently washed up in that vicinity.
2We describe the first case of chondroblastoma arising in the diaphysis of a long bone.
3Other tracks took a direction of longitudinal obliquity, and then implicated both epiphysis and diaphysis.
4Showing shortening of bone, owing to a lateral approximation of the diaphysis because of muscular contraction.
5The osteons are cylindrical structures and are the main structural units of the diaphysis in long bones.
1No real body of bones and muscles, but the contours of grouped sausages.
Translations for body of bone