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Webster 1913 Edition
Ossification
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.
☞ 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.
Webster 1828 Edition
Ossification
OSSIFICA'TION
,Noun.
1.
The change or process of changing from flesh or other matter of animal bodies into a bony substance; as the ossification of an artery.2.
The formation of bones in animals.Definition 2024
ossification
ossification
English
Noun
ossification (plural ossifications)
- the normal process by which bone is formed
- the calcification of tissue into a bonelike mass; the mass so formed
- the process of becoming set in one's ways or beliefs; rigid conventionality
Translations
the normal process by which bone is formed
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