[mod.L., a. Gr. ἀναπλήρωσις, f. ἀνα-πληρό-ειν to fill up.] The filling up of a deficiency.
1680. H. More, Apocal. Apoc., 258. Respecting the voices of the three Angels, and Anapleroses of them.
1706. Phillips, Anaplerosis … in Surgery, that part of the Art, which restores what either Nature has denied, or is otherwise decayed.
1853. Mayne, Exp. Lex., Anaplerosis … filling up of parts that have been destroyed, as in wounds, cicatrices, etc.
