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ossification
(encz) | ossification,kostnatění n: Zdeněk Brož |
Ossification
(gcide) | Ossification \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.
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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.
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2. The state of being changed into a bony substance; also, a
mass or point of ossified tissue.
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ossification
(wn) | ossification
n 1: the developmental process of bone formation
2: the calcification of soft tissue into a bonelike material
3: the process of becoming rigidly fixed in a conventional
pattern of thought or behavior
4: hardened conventionality [syn: ossification, conformity] |
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deossification
(encz) | deossification, n: |
ossification
(encz) | ossification,kostnatění n: Zdeněk Brož |
Flossification
(gcide) | Flossification \Flos`si*fi*ca"tion\, n. [Cf. Florification.]
A flowering; florification. [R.] --Craig.
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Grossification
(gcide) | Grossification \Gross`i*fi*ca"tion\, n. [Gross + L. ficare (in
comp.) to make. See -fy.]
1. The act of making gross or thick, or the state of becoming
so.
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2. (Bot.) The swelling of the ovary of plants after
fertilization. Henslow.
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deossification
(wn) | deossification
n 1: the loss of the mineral content of bone tissue |
ossification
(wn) | ossification
n 1: the developmental process of bone formation
2: the calcification of soft tissue into a bonelike material
3: the process of becoming rigidly fixed in a conventional
pattern of thought or behavior
4: hardened conventionality [syn: ossification, conformity] |
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