Ossify means to become bony. When a baby is born, some of their "bones" are actually soft cartilage, which allows for growth. As the child grows, these soft areas ossify into actual bone. The knee cap, for example, begins to ossify between ages 3 and 6.
To form into bone; to change from a soft animal substance into bone, as by the deposition of lime salts.
Verb
become bony; "The tissue ossified"
Verb
cause to become hard and bony; "The disease ossified the tissue"
Verb
make rigid and set into a conventional pattern; "rigidify the training schedule"; "ossified teaching methods"; "slogans petrify our thinking"
v. t.
To form into bone; to change from a soft animal
substance into bone, as by the deposition of lime salts.
v. t.
Fig.: To harden; as, to ossify the heart.
v. i.
To become bone; to change from a soft tissue to a hard
bony tissue.
Ossify
Ossify
To form into bone; to change from a soft animal substance into bone, as by the deposition of lime salts.
To become bone; to change from a soft tissue to a hard bony tissue.
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