Thesaurus: ossification

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1. n. 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.
2. n. The state of being changed into a bony substance; also, a mass or point of ossified tissue.
3. n. the developmental process of bone formation
4. n. the calcification of soft tissue into a bonelike material
5. n. the process of becoming rigidly fixed in a conventional pattern of thought or behavior
6. n. hardened conventionality
7. 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.
8. The formation of bone; the process, in the growth of an animal,by which inorganic material (mainly lime salts) is deposited incartilage or membrane, forming bony tissue; ostosis.
9. n:100 n. the developmental process of bone formation n. the calcification of soft tissue into a bonelike material n. the process of becoming rigidly fixed in a conventional pattern of thought or behavior