Ossification

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. The natural process of bone formation.
  • n. The hardening or calcification of soft tissue into a bonelike material.
  • n. A mass or deposit of such material.
  • n. The process of becoming set in a rigidly conventional pattern, as of behavior, habits, or beliefs.
  • n. Rigid, unimaginative convention.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. the normal process by which bone is formed
  • n. the calcification of tissue into a bonelike mass; the mass so formed
  • n. the process of becoming set in one's ways or beliefs; rigid conventionality
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. 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.
  • n. The state of being changed into a bony substance; also, a mass or point of ossified tissue.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. The formation of bone; the act or process of changing or of being changed into bone, or into a bony substance; the change so effected: as, the ossification of cartilage. See osteogenesis.
  • n. That which is ossified, or the result of ossification; bone in general.
  • n. The state or quality of being ossified.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. the developmental process of bone formation
  • n. the calcification of soft tissue into a bonelike material
  • n. the process of becoming rigidly fixed in a conventional pattern of thought or behavior
  • n. hardened conventionality
    • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    biological process    organic process    calcification    human process    conventionality   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    ostosis   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Alsatian    Americanization    Appalachian    Balkanization    Christianization   
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    diaphysis    day-care    sever    spavin    unfoldment   
     
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