n. Growth resulting from increase in cell size without cell division. [Greek auxēsis, growth, from auxanein, auxē-, to grow; see aug- in the Appendix of Indo-European roots.] aux·etic (ôg-zĕtĭk) adj. aux·eti·cal·ly adv. |
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