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Noun: ossification  `ósufu'keyshun
  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 behaviour
     
  4. Hardened conventionality
    - conformity

Derived forms: ossifications

See also: ossify

Type of: biological process, calcification, convention, conventionalism, conventionality, human process, organic process

Encyclopedia: Ossification

Nearest

osseous labyrinth
osseous tissue
Ossete
Ossi
ossia
ossicle
ossicular
ossiculate
ossiculum
ossiferous
ossification
ossified
ossifrage
ossify
osso buco
ossuary
Ostariophysi
osteal
Osteichthyes
osteitis
osteitis deformans