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Definition of Ossified
1. Adjective. Set in a rigidly conventional pattern of behavior, habits, or beliefs. "An ossified bureaucratic system"
Definition of Ossified
1. a. Changed to bone or something resembling bone; hardened by deposits of mineral matter of any kind; -- said of tissues.
Definition of Ossified
1. Adjective. Of ideas or attitudes, inflexible, old-fashioned. ¹
2. Verb. (past of ossify) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Ossified
1. ossify [v] - See also: ossify
Medical Definition of Ossified
1. Changed to bone or something resembling bone; hardened by deposits of mineral matter of any kind; said of tissues. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ossified
Literary usage of Ossified
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Illustrated Horse Doctor: Being an Accurate and Detailed Account of the by Edward Mayhew (1880)
"ossified CARTILAGES. This signifies a conversion into osseous structure of the
cartilages naturally developed upon the wings of the coffin-bone, ..."
2. Major and Minor Keys: Critical Essays on Philippine Fiction and Poetry by Ricaredo Demetillo (1846)
"ossified Brains. Among other phenomena, which, to the superficial observer, seem
calculated to refute the principle, that the brain is exclusively the organ ..."
3. Horses & Stables by Frederic Wellington Fitzwygram (1911)
"ossified CARTILAGES. Nature and seat. 634. Causes. 635. Signs of lameness arising
from ossified Cartilages. 630. Treatment. SORE SHINS. 626. ..."
4. Phrenology: Or The Doctrine of the Mental Phenomena by Johann Kaspar Spurzheim (1833)
"ossified Brains. Among other phenomena, which, to the superficial observer, seem
calculated to refute the principle, that the brain is exclusively the organ ..."
5. America's Aims and Asia's Aspirations by Patrick Gallagher (1920)
"CHAPTER VIII "THE ossified FOUR" THE American press delegation was housed at 4,
... I was just in time to attend a seance with "the ossified Four. ..."
6. Catalogue of the Hunterian Collection in the Museum of the Royal College of by Museum, Royal College of Surgeons in London (1830)
"One of the coronary arteries is also ossified to a considerable extent from its
... Part of the arch of the aorta much ossified, and somewhat dilated at the ..."
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