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Definitions of ossified in various dictionaries:
verb - become bony
verb - make rigid and set into a conventional pattern
verb - cause to become hard and bony
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Of ideas or attitudes, inflexible, old-fashioned. |
Simple past tense and past participle of ossify. |
Turn into bone or bony tissue. |
Cease developing stagnate. |
cease developing stagnate. |
turn into bone or bony tissue. |
changed into bone hardened by deposits of mineral matter |
set in a rigidly conventional pattern of behavior, habits, or beliefs |
Ossified might refer to |
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Ossification (or osteogenesis) in bone remodeling is the process of laying down new bone material by cells called osteoblasts. It is synonymous with bone tissue formation. There are two processes resulting in the formation of normal, healthy bone tissue: Intramembranous ossification is the direct laying down of bone into the primitive connective tissue (mesenchyme), while endochondral ossification involves cartilage as a precursor. * In fracture healing, endochondral osteogenesis is the most commonly occurring process, for example in fractures of long bones treated by plaster of Paris, whereas fractures treated by open reduction and internal fixation with metal plates, screws, pins, rods and nails may heal by intramembranous osteogenesis. * Heterotopic ossification is a process resulting in the formation of bone tissue that is often atypical, at an extraskeletal location. Calcification is often confused with ossification. Calcification is synonymous with the formation of calcium-based sal |