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anapleurosis

anapleurosis is the alternative form of anaplerosis.

Meaning of anaplerosis

Noun

anaplerosis (countable and uncountable, plural anapleroses)

  1. The replenishment of a deficiency, or refilling of the space left by a destroyed part.
  2. An intermediate enzyme reaction that replaces a depleted vital compound.

Forms of anapleurosis

pluralanapleuroses

Questions about anapleurosis

What is anapleurosis the alternative form of?
Anapleurosis is the alternative form of anaplerosis.

Words near anapleurosis in the dictionary

  1. anapleroses
  2. anaplerosis
  3. anaplerotic
  4. anaplerotically
  5. anapleural
  6. anapleurosis
  7. anapleurotic
  8. anapleurotically
  9. anapnea
  10. anapnograph
  11. anapnographs

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Adapted from Wiktionary: anapleurosis (page history and authors); anaplerosis (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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