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骺 is a phono-semantic compound: 骨 (bone) serves as the semantic radical, placing the character in the domain of skeletal anatomy and medicine, while 后 (hòu) means 'end' and simultaneously supplies the sound hóu. The character refers to the epiphysis , the rounded extremity of a long bone that forms a joint where it meets an adjacent bone. Its use is restricted to fields such as clinical anatomy, orthopedics, and biology. This illustrates how a radical that denotes a physiological category and a phonetic component that also hints at the meaning combine to form specialized scientific terms.
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