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Definition of Ossifications
1. ossification [n] - See also: ossification
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ossifications
Literary usage of Ossifications
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and General (1890)
"The stapes is large and well ossified. Two distinct ossifications ... and one or
two supra-occipital ossifications (probably membrane bones) very generally ..."
2. A Treatise on the diseases of the eye by William Lawrence (1854)
"The subject, therefore, generally speaking, it of no practical importance.
The recorded instances of these ossifications have been, for the most part, ..."
3. The Morbid Anatomy of Some of the Most Important Parts of the Human Body by Matthew Baillie, James Wardrop (1833)
"There is often one of these ossifications only; but sometimes there are more of
them. The falciform process has been said to be occasionally found almost ..."
4. The Order Microsauria by Robert Lynn Carroll, Pamela Gaskill (1978)
"SCALES AND OTHER DERMAL Ossifications (Fig. 130) Scales are one of the more
conspicuous features of ..."
5. A Manual of the Diseases of the Human Eye: Intended for Surgeons Commencing by Carl Heinrich Weller, George Cunningham Monteath (1821)
"We accordingly meet with even ossifications, or what are called petrifactions in
the eye. There are, for example, ossifications in the sclerotica and in the ..."
6. Syllabus of Lectures on the Vertebrata by Edward Drinker Cope, Henry Fairfield Osborn (1898)
"... with very thin ossifications and light structure, from the Trias of Scotland.
This order is probably ancestral to all FIG. I". ..."
7. The London Medical Gazette (1840)
"... rare in the testicle, as no mention is made of it in Cooper's Dictionary; the
only ossifications mentioned there are those in the form of bony plates. ..."
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