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ossify
[ os-uh-fahy ]
verb (used with object)
- to convert into or cause to harden like bone.
verb (used without object)
- to become bone or harden like bone.
- to become rigid or inflexible in habits, attitudes, opinions, etc.:
a young man who began to ossify right after college.
ossify
/ ˈɒsɪˌfaɪ /
verb
- to convert or be converted into bone
- intr (of habits, attitudes, etc) to become inflexible
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Derived Forms
- ˈossiˌfier, noun
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Other Words From
- ossi·fier noun
- un·ossi·fying adjective
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of ossify1
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Example Sentences
Valves of the Aorta of a cartilaginous texture, as if beginning to ossify.
The other element, the cartilaginous brain-box, does not ossify, and tends to become absorbed (p. 124).
There is a general growth to be observed, and the bones are beginning to ossify.
Maimuni, through his religious Code, gave rabbinical Judaism a strong hold, and on the other hand he helped to ossify it.
In the young animal the ends of both radius and ulna are seen to ossify from centres different from those forming the shafts.
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