Ossification is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for OSSIFICATION in dictionary:

NOUN:
• the natural process of bone formation
• 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.
• The state of being changed into a bony substance; also, a mass or point of ossified tissue.
• 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
• in bone remodeling is the process of laying down new bone material by cells called osteoblasts.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• the natural process of bone formation; the hardening (as of muscular tissue) into a bony substance

Words related to OSSIFICATION

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Words that contain OSSIFICATION

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How to use OSSIFICATION in a sentence

• Before she had passed middle life, her lungs were believed to be irreparably injured by partial ossification.
• We think we may say, too, that in the vast majority of cases the ossification of the cartilage commences in its anterior half.
• You will note the ossification of the flexor pedis at its attachment to the pedal bone.
• They were suffering from a sort of ossification of the spirit, so that the last and greatest revelation of God could make no impression upon them.
• Subjects which continue somewhat lame, because of complete ossification of both cartilages, are best put to slow work on soft ground and not driven on pavements.
• It preserved his heart from becoming arid, and his nature from ossification.
• Even though the growth may be completed before these ages, ossification of the bones is not fully effected, so that development is incomplete.
• The disorder was subsequently ascertained to have been ossification of the vessels of the heart.
• The old Strefford had certainly been a larger person, and she wondered if material prosperity were always a beginning of ossification.
• Chapman made a thorough examination of his case, which he pronounced ossification of the arteries of the heart, and which was rapidly progressing.

Similar words containing OSSIFICA without suffix tion

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