BioConcepts

juxtapositionJuxtaposition (ger.)

• The addition of layers of cellulose to the inner surface of a plant cell wall, at its junction with the plasma membrane. This type of growth results in thickening and strengthening the cell wall and usually occurs when elongation of the cell is complete. (Oxford Dict. of Biology 2008)
  category growth see also intussusception

  1632

  plantas autem & alia animantia non augeri per iuxta-positionem, sed per intus-sumptionem, id est attrahendo per poros alimentum in minutissimas partes divisum, & in se illud convertendo

  Arriaga, R. de (1632). Disputationes in tres libros Aristotelis De anima (in: Cursus philosophicus, 591-812): 636 (Disp. 2, §1, 1, Nr. 19); cf. Des Chene, D. (2000). Life’s Form. Late Aristotelian Conceptions of the Soul: 62.

  1709

  Croître par apposition [...] Juxtaposition [...] appliquées sans avoir reçu aucune préparation dans ce corps même

  Réaumur, R.-A. F. (1709). De la formation et de l’accroissement des coquilles des animaux. Histoire de l’Academie Royale des Sciences 364-400: 366.