merisis

English

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek μερίς (merís, “part”) + -sis (forming nouns of action or progress)

Noun

merisis (countable and uncountable, plural merises)

  1. (biology) Any form of growth; specifically, growth by increase in number of cells.

Derived terms
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