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What is physis?

What is physis? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (philosophy) nature, as contrasted with law or custom
  2. (anatomy) The epiphyseal plate, a hyaline cartilage plate in the metaphysis at each end of a long bone, found in children and adolescents.
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With this method, radiopacity of the physis of the tibial tubercle is used as an indicator of skeletal maturity of the knee since it is the last physis of the knee to bridge.
Humankind has thus created a difficult and dangerous communion between Nature and Art, between what the Greeks termed physis and technè.
Greatest, said Galen, is the physis, and Hippocrates is its prophet.
As practitioners in the developmental field, our objective is to stimulate physis for individuals, within community, and through community.
The most important characteristic of the physis or Nature is its its artistic creativeness.

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