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Definitions of ossify 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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| To become set in a rigidly conventional pattern: "The central ideas of liberalism have ossified ( Jeffrey Hart). |
| To convert (a membrane or cartilage, for example) into bone. |
| To mold into a rigidly conventional pattern. |
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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 |