Meaning of OSSIFICATION
| Pronunciation: | | `âsufu'keyshun
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- [n] hardened conventionality
- [n] the developmental process of bone formation
- [n] the process of becoming rigidly fixed in a conventional pattern of thught or behavior
- [n] the calcification of soft tissue into a bonelike material
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| | Synonyms: | | conformity |
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| | See Also: | | biological process, calcification, convention, conventionalism, conventionality, human process, organic process | |
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| | Definition: | | \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.
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| | Definition: | | the process of bone formation. |
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