Fifty-six percent of voters support the birth control coverage benefit, including 53 percent of Catholic voters, and 62 percent of Catholics who identify themselves as independents, according to a new Public Policy Polling Poll.
For other uses, see Sylph (disambiguation). Sylph (also called sylphid) is a mythological spirit of the air. The term originates in the 16th century works of Paracelsus, who describes sylphs as invisible beings of the air, his elementals of air.
Princeton's WordNet(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition: 1  apophysis(noun) (botany) a natural swelling or enlargement: at the base of the stalk or seta in certain mosses or on the cone scale of certain conifers. 2  apophysis(noun) (anatomy) a natural outgrowth or projection on an organ or body part such as the process of a vertebra.