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| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | change state, turn |
| Derivation | ossification |
Examples of ossify
ossify
In the genetic disease, connective tissue begins to ossify and turn into bone.
From the sciencedaily.com
Otherwise, our opinions will ossify and conflicts will escalate.
From the blogs.psychcentral.com
The relentless rise in global temperatures will simply ossify this conviction, I'd put cash money on it.
From the independent.co.uk
As you can see in B above, this is happening as the bones ossify, and before the shoulder girdle has fully formed.
From the scienceblogs.com
Once the brain stops growing, the sutures ossify.
From the sciencedaily.com
While so many comics ossify by relying on a few dependable crowd-pleasing gags and catchphrases, Martin keeps evolving.
From the time.com
One big problem is that the inability of the traditional labor model to accommodate change helps ossify the industries in which unions predominate.
From the theatlantic.com
Urgent evaluation is essential in these children, because their cochlea tend to ossify or harden into bone, making implantation difficult.
From the sciencedaily.com
Such institutions or rules must ossify the structure of in-period choice and must make particular outcomes less rather than more flexible.
From the econlib.org
- Become bony; "The tissue ossified"
- Rigidify: make rigid and set into a conventional pattern; "rigidify the training schedule"; "ossified teaching methods"; "slogans petrify our thinking"
- (ossification) the developmental process of bone formation
- (ossification) the calcification of soft tissue into a bonelike material
- (ossification) the process of becoming rigidly fixed in a conventional pattern of thought or behavior
- (ossification) hardened conventionality
- (ossified) fossilized: set in a rigidly conventional pattern of behavior, habits, or beliefs; "obsolete fossilized ways"; "an ossified bureaucratic system"
- To transform (or cause to transform) from a softer animal substance into bone; particularly the processes of growth in humans and animals; To become (or cause to become) inflexible and rigid in habits or opinions; To grow (or cause to grow) formulaic and permanent; To calcify
- (ossified) Of ideas or attitudes, inflexible, old-fashioned
