ossify in English

verb

1

turn into bone or bony tissue.

these tracheal cartilages may ossify

synonyms: turn into bone, become bony, calcify, harden, solidify, rigidify, petrify

2

cease developing; be stagnant or rigid.

ossified political institutions

synonyms: become inflexible, become rigid, fossilize, calcify, rigidify, stagnate

verb

turn into bone, become bony, calcify, harden, solidify, rigidify, petrify
become inflexible, become rigid, fossilize, calcify, rigidify, stagnate
petrify, rigidify

Use "ossify" in a sentence

1. What is the difference between ossify and Calcify?

2. Seminated snotty-nosed costmary half-concealed Architraval de-ossify Kuangchou

3. And when that happens, Saturn's presence can ossify into stubborn, haughty resistance.

4. This disease will make her tendons ossify and her body paralyzed into a statue.

5. Begin with and ossify over time, beginning from the hoof and working up the leg.

6. Synonyms for Calcify include fossilise, fossilize, harden, petrify, set, solidify, turn into stone, ossify, fossilate and fossilify

7. When heritage and its interpretation is allowed to ossify the past and the present begin to disconnect.

8. The ishial Apophyses starts to ossify between the ages of 14 and 16 years and fully fuses by age 18

9. Raymond: That it is possible for open source cultures in some respects to ossify enough that good work is locked out.

10. Before the ring Apophyses ossify there is a small radiolucent defect at anterior endplates, that can at times form a prominent irregular notch

11. Takes an exam the student thinking mode which the education creates to ossify, student heavy knowledge grasping, light thinking mode training.

12. Anneal - HARDEN - OSSIFY - TEMPER 7 letter words CALLOUS - PETRIFY - TOUGHEN 8 letter words INDURATE 9 letter words FOSSILIZE 10 letter words STRENGTHEN

13. At birth, the kneecap is just formed from cartilage, and this will ossify (change to bone) between the ages of three and five years.

14. But the risk that the recent homeward flow of bank assets will ossify into a less efficient, less flexible cross-border banking system is real and growing.

15. Demineralized bone powder mixed with bone-marrow aspirate was introduced into the cyst to halt the expansion phase and to allow the cyst to ossify.

16. In addition, she said,(http://Sentencedict.com) "what this has tended to do is ossify terms and conditions when we need more flexibility about how we do things".

17. All fixed, fast-frozen relations, with their train of ancient and venerable prejudices and opinions, are swept away, all new-formed ones become antiquated before they can ossify .