| ossification |
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
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| ossify |
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" cause to become hard and bony; "The disease ossified the tissue"
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| ossicular |
pertaining to the ossicles in the middle ear
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| ossiculate |
ossicular: pertaining to the ossicles in the middle ear
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| ossiferous |
containing bones (especially fossil bones); "ossiferous caves"
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