ossification
— Noun
– English
~ the developmental process of bone formation
ossification
— Noun
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~ hardened conventionality
ossification
— Noun
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~ the process of becoming rigidly fixed in a conventional pattern of thought or behavior
ossification
— Noun
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~ the calcification of soft tissue into a bonelike material
ossified
— Adjective
– English
~ set in a rigidly conventional pattern of behavior, habits, or beliefs; "obsolete fossilized ways"; "an ossified bureaucratic system"
ossify
— Verb
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~ cause to become hard and bony; "The disease ossified the tissue"
ossify
— Verb
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~ become bony; "The tissue ossified"
ossify
— Verb
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~ make rigid and set into a conventional pattern; "rigidify the training schedule"; "ossified teaching methods"; "slogans petrify our thinking"
osso buco
— Noun
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~ sliced veal knuckle or shin bone cooked with olive oil and wine and tomatoes and served with rice or vegetables
ossuary
— Noun
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~ any receptacle for the burial of human bones
order Ostariophysi
— Noun
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~ in some classifications considered a superorder comprising the Cypriniformes and the Siluriformes
Ostariophysi
— Noun
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~ in some classifications considered a superorder comprising the Cypriniformes and the Siluriformes
osteal
— Adjective
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~ composed of or containing bone; "osseous tissue"
osteal
— Adjective
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~ relating to bone or to the skeleton
Osteichthyes
— Noun
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~ a class of fish having a skeleton composed of bone in addition to cartilage
osteitis
— Noun
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~ inflammation of a bone as a consequence of infection or trauma or degeneration
osteitis deformans
— Noun
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~ a disease of bone occurring in the middle aged and elderly; excessive bone destruction sometimes leading to bone pain and fractures and skeletal deformities
ostensible
— Adjective
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~ represented or appearing as such; pretended; "His ostensible purpose was charity, his real goal popularity"
ostensible
— Adjective
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~ appearing as such but not necessarily so; "for all his apparent wealth he had no money to pay the rent"; "the committee investigated some apparent discrepancies"; "the ostensible truth of their theories"; "his seeming honesty"