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noun
Ossification  n.  
1.
(Physiol.) The formation of bone; the process, in the growth of an animal, by which inorganic material (mainly lime salts) is deposited in cartilage or membrane, forming bony tissue; ostosis. Note: Besides the natural ossification of growing tissue, there is the so-called accidental ossification which sometimes follows certain abnormal conditions, as in the ossification of an artery.
2.
The state of being changed into a bony substance; also, a mass or point of ossified tissue.





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"Ossification" Quotes from Famous Books



... minds in the world have thought and are thinking that if we could find a way of preventing the hardening of the cells of the system, producing in turn hardened arteries and what is meant by the general term "ossification," that the process of aging, growing old, could be greatly retarded, and that the condition of perpetual youth that we seem to catch glimpses of in rare individuals here and there could be made a more common occurrence than ...
— The Higher Powers of Mind and Spirit • Ralph Waldo Trine
... the judge comes stammering on to the stage, is he not actually preparing us, by this very stammering, to understand the phenomenon of intellectual ossification we are about to witness? What bond of secret relationship can there be between the physical defect and the moral infirmity? It is difficult to say; yet we feel that the relationship is there, though we cannot express it in words. Perhaps the situation required that this judging machine ...
— Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic • Henri Bergson
... in the laryngeal structure until middle life, when ossification of the cartilages commences. The thyroid is first affected, then the cricoid, and ...
— The Child-Voice in Singing • Francis E. Howard


Words linked to "Ossification" :   biological process, human process, organic process, ossify, conventionality, calcification, conformity, conventionalism, convention


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