atresia


Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
atresia /əˈtriːʃə, -zɪə/
noun
  • 1 Medicine absence or abnormal narrowing of an opening or passage in the body.
  • 2 Physiology the degeneration of those Graafian follicles which do not ovulate during the menstrual cycle.
– origin C19: from a-1 + Gk trēsis ‘perforation’ + -ia1.
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