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Ossify   Listen
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Ossify  v. t.  (past & past part. ossified; pres. part. ossifying)  
1.
(Physiol.) To form into bone; to change from a soft animal substance into bone, as by the deposition of lime salts.
2.
(Fig.): To harden; as, to ossify the heart.





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"Ossify" Quotes from Famous Books



... should not be satisfied until they have gone beyond this mark. Elderly people can also increase their chest expansion and breathing capacity, but it takes more time, for with the years the chest cartilages have a tendency to harden and even to ossify. The less breathing the sooner the ...
— Maintaining Health • R. L. Alsaker
... cartilage surrounding the notochord to form cartilaginous vertebrae, which may be stiffened by an infiltration of carbonate of lime. The vertebral column of sharks has reached this stage. Then the cartilaginous vertebrae ossify and form a true backbone. I have described the process as if it were very simple. But only the student of comparative osteology can have any conception of the number of experiments which were tried ...
— The Whence and the Whither of Man • John Mason Tyler


Words linked to "Ossify" :   change, alter, turn, petrify, stiffen, ossification, change state


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