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ossification |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Ossification \Os`si*fi*ca"tion\, n. [Cf. F. ossification. See {Ossify}.] 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. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: ossification n 1: the process of bone formation 2: hardened conventionality [syn: {conformity}]
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