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diaphysis

[dī′af·ə·səs]

(anatomy)

The shaft of a longbone.

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Linking structural variability in long bone diaphyses to habitual behaviors: foragers from the southern African Later Stone Age and the Andaman Islands.

Habitual Activity in Pre-industrial Rural and Urban Dutch Populations: A Study of Lower Limb Cross-sectional Geometry

Radiologically, the hallmark of the disorder is bilateral, symmetrical cortical thickening of the diaphyses of the long bones(14,15) on both the periosteal and endosteal sides of the diaphyses.

Camurati-Engelmann disease

Then, the epiphyses, metaphyses, and diaphyses should be inspected.

Angular deformities of the lower limb in children

Cortical bone is the dense bone that forms the outer shell of most bones and makes up the diaphyses of long bones.

Correlation between compression of the proximal tibia and gross external indicators of joint degeneration

2 mm (Qaja) The similarity in breadth highlights that the diaphyses in the wolf specimens are proportionally longer, a routine pattern that characterizes wolf limbs in relation to morphologically generalized dogs.

Paleoeskimo dogs of the Eastern Arctic

Lesions located between metaphyses and diaphyses are called "metadiaphyseal" lesions.