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Ossify   Listen
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Ossify  v. i.  (Physiol.) To become bone; to change from a soft tissue to a hard bony tissue.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Ossify" Quotes from Famous Books



... ossify the periosteal veins become enlarged, grooving the external surface; the arteries are enclosed by hard osseus tubercles at the base of the horns, which coalesce and render them impervious, and, the supply of nutriment being thus cut off, the envelopes shrivel up and ...
— Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon • Robert A. Sterndale

... of a profound statesmanship. "Men have heard him styled a mere fanatic so long that they are incompetent to judge him fairly." "The phrases men are accustomed," says Goethe, "to repeat incessantly, end by becoming convictions, and ossify the organs of intelligence." I cannot accept you, therefore, as my jury. I appeal from Festus to Csar, from the prejudice of our streets to the common-sense of the world, and to ...
— American Eloquence, Volume II. (of 4) - Studies In American Political History (1896) • Various

... cartilage; hardware; heart of oak, block, board, deal board; iron, steel; cast iron, decarbonized iron, wrought iron; nail; brick, concrete; cement. V. render hard &c adj.; harden, stiffen, indurate, petrify, temper, ossify, vitrify; accrust^. Adj. hard, rigid, stubborn, stiff, firm; starch, starched; stark, unbending, unlimber, unyielding; inflexible, tense; indurate, indurated; gritty, proof. adamant, adamantine, adamantean^; concrete, stony, granitic, calculous, lithic^, vitreous; horny, corneous^; ...
— Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases: Body • Roget



Words linked to "Ossify" :   stiffen, change state, modify, rigidify, petrify, change, ossification



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