n, pl  -er*ies  1  :  the outward bounds of something as distinguished from its internal regions or center  2  :  the regions (as the sense organs, the muscles, or the viscera) in which nerves terminate .
 
 
 
Similar sounding terms:  hy·per·pho·ria  por·phyr·ia 
 
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