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Definition of Ossifies
1. ossify [v] - See also: ossify
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ossifies
Literary usage of Ossifies
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Introduction to human anatomy including the anatomy of the tissues by William Turner (1877)
"The scapula ossifies from one centre for its expanded plate and spine, ...
Each of the long bones of the shafts of the limbs ossifies from a single centre ..."
2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and General (1890)
"The clavicle, which ossifies before any of the other bones, begins to form,
however, in fibrous membrane ; and at a much later period the ends of the bone, ..."
3. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"The clavicle, which ossifies before any of the other bones, begins to form, ...
The scapula ossifies from one centre for its expanded plate and spine, ..."
4. The New Werner Twentieth Century Edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica: A (1907)
"The clavicle, which ossifies before any of the other bones, begins to form, ...
The scapula ossifies from one centre for its expanded plate and spine, ..."
5. A Treatise on Comparative Embryology by Francis Maitland Balfour (1885)
"It always ossifies as the ilium. The ventral section is usually formed of two
more or less separated parts, an anterior which ossifies as the pubis, ..."
6. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1901)
"In its history in all these groups the quadrate is preformed in cartilage, and
hence, when it ossifies, it becomes converted into cartilage bone. ..."
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