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ossification::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | conformity |
| Type of | conventionalism, convention, conventionality |
| Derivation | ossify |
ossification::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | calcification |
| Derivation | ossify |
ossification::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | biological process, organic process |
ossification::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | human process |
| Derivation | ossify |
Examples of ossification
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Endochondral ossification is required for haematopoietic stem-cell niche formation.
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Many critics of the community and its leadership accused it of ossification.
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This ossification and stagnation cannot be good for the overall health of the economy.
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Feather moult and skull ossification provide indications of age and health.
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Substance P signaling mediates BMP dependent heterotopic ossification.
From the sciencedaily.com
Bone growth in children also occurs via this process, known as endochondral ossification.
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Syndecan-3 and the control of chondrocyte proliferation during endochondral ossification.
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The snow leopard cannot roar, despite possessing partial ossification of the hyoid bone.
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Empires die of ossification, bureaucracy, sclerosis of the mind and expired assumptions.
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- The developmental process of bone formation
- The calcification of soft tissue into a bonelike material
- The process of becoming rigidly fixed in a conventional pattern of thought or behavior
- Hardened conventionality
- (ossified) fossilized: set in a rigidly conventional pattern of behavior, habits, or beliefs; "obsolete fossilized ways"; "an ossified bureaucratic system"
- (ossify) become bony; "The tissue ossified"
- Ossification (or osteogenesis) is the process of laying down new bone material by cells called osteoblasts. It is synonymous with bone tissue formation. ...
- 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
- (ossified) Of ideas or attitudes, inflexible, old-fashioned
