ossified
adjective
hardened like or into bone.
unossified
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a word derived from
ossified.
Example Sentences
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Probably not, because a meningocele usually protrudes through an unossified part of the skull, usually at the back, sometimes at the root of the nose.
From Time Magazine Archive
Ossification proceeds rapidly from the maxillaries medially to the unossified ethmoid, which is the last of the cranial bones to appear.
From Neotropical Hylid Frogs, Genus Smilisca by William E. Duellman
We have found nothing in the specimen that could be referred to the ethmosphenoid; it may have been unossified.
From A New Order of Fishlike Amphibia From the Pennsylvanian of Kansas by Theodore H. (Theodore Hildreth) Eaton
Certhia familiaris americana Bonaparte.—Specimens examined: total 2: ♀ 31612 from the base of Don Martín Dam, November 27, 1953, skull partially unossified; and ♀ 31587 from 20 mi.
From Birds from Coahuila, Mexico by Emil K. Urban
The symptoms of rachitis become apparent at the pelvis and at the wide open, soft parts of the skull, the unossified fontanelles.
From Valere Aude Dare to Be Healthy, Or, The Light of Physical Regeneration by Louis Dechmann
