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Definition of Ossify
1. Verb. Become bony. "The tissue ossified"
2. Verb. Make rigid and set into a conventional pattern. "Slogans petrify our thinking"
Generic synonyms: Stiffen
Derivative terms: Ossification, Ossification, Rigidity, Rigidity
3. Verb. Cause to become hard and bony. "The disease ossified the tissue"
Definition of Ossify
1. v. t. To form into bone; to change from a soft animal substance into bone, as by the deposition of lime salts.
2. v. i. To become bone; to change from a soft tissue to a hard bony tissue.
Definition of Ossify
1. Verb. (ambitransitive) To transform (or cause to transform) from a softer animal substance into bone; particularly the processes of growth in humans and animals. ¹
2. Verb. (ambitransitive animate) To become (or cause to become) inflexible and rigid in habits or opinions. ¹
3. Verb. (ambitransitive inanimate) To grow (or cause to grow) formulaic and permanent. ¹
4. Verb. (rare) To calcify. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Ossify
1. to convert into bone [v -FIED, -FYING, -FIES]
Medical Definition of Ossify
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Ossify
Literary usage of Ossify
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Trial of Scott Nearing and the American Socialist Society: Presiding by Scott Nearing, American Socialist Society (1919)
"... and all chance of progress, and you simply ossify and become fixed in character
and type. If they are not allowed to tell you what else they believe, ..."
2. Textbook of human physiology by Leonard Landois, William Stirling (1889)
"Cartilages.—The thyroid, cricoid, and nearly the whole of the arytenoid cartilages
consist of hyaline cartilage. The two former are prone to ossify. ..."