adjective
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Having undergone the process of ossification (transformation into bone).
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ossified cartilage
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(of ideas or attitudes) Inflexible, old-fashioned.
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Drunk
verb
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To transform (or cause to transform) from a softer animal substance into bone; particularly the processes of growth in humans and animals.
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(animate) To become (or cause to become) inflexible and rigid in habits or opinions.
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(inanimate) To grow (or cause to grow) formulaic and permanent.
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To calcify.
Examples of ossified in a Sentence
The ribs are eighteen or nineteen in number on each side, flattened, and united to the sternum by short, stout, tolerably well ossified sternal ribs.
The scapula is long and slender, the supra-scapular border being rounded, and slowly and imperfectly ossified.
No batrachian is known to possess an ossified azygous supraoccipital.
The vomer is broad, abruptly truncated in front, and deeply cleft behind, so as to embrace the rostrum of the sphenoid; the palatals have produced postero-external angles; the maxillo-palatals are slender at their origin, and extend obliquely inwards and forwards over the palatals, ending beneath the vomer in expanded extremities, not united either with one another or with the vomer, nor does the latter unite with the nasal septum, though that is frequently ossified.
Later those pads fuse with the anterior end of the centrum of the vertebra to which they belong; where the vertebral column is rendered inflexible, the disks are ossified with the centra and all trace of them is lost.
The scutes or dermal portions of the scales are more or less ossified, especially on the back, and form the characteristic dermal armour.
The bones which bear the two occipital condyles have given rise to much discussion, and the definition given by Huxley in the previous edition - "two occipital condyles, the basi-occipital region of the skull either very incompletely or not at all ossified" - requires revision.
The fact remains, however, that some if not all of the stegocephalous batrachians have an ossified basi-occipital.
Even the inferior arches or chevrons of the tail of salamanders are continuously ossified with the centra.
The pectoral girdle of the Stegocephalia is, of course, only known from the ossified elements, the identification of which has given rise to some diversity of opinion.
The pelvic arch of some of the Stegocephalia contained a well ossified pubic element, whilst in all other batrachians only the ilium, or the ilium and the ischium are ossified.