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apposition: a standalone construct

One name. One construct. A landmark on the map.

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apposition1 CONSTRUCTAppositional growthROSS · SURFACE LAYERING

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Histology

Growth by layering onto a surface

In histology, appositional growth is growth that adds new material in layers onto the outer surface of an existing structure, as when osteoblasts lay down fresh bone matrix on an existing bone surface or ameloblasts build enamel outward, in contrast to interstitial growth, which expands a tissue from within. Ross and Pawlina's Histology: A Text and Atlas describes this surface-deposition mechanism in bone, cartilage, and teeth. The referent is a mode of tissue growth by surface accretion, sharing only the placing-beside root with the grammatical relation and denoting an unrelated biological process.[1]

Unit
The deposition of new tissue in successive layers on an existing surface
Recovery means
Not applicable
Measured by
Tracked histologically by surface deposition rates and by banding or growth lines left in the accreted tissue

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References

  1. Ross, M. H., & Pawlina, W. (2011). Histology: A text and atlas with correlated cell and molecular biology (6th ed.). Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. ISBN 9781451101508

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