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Ossification   /ˌɑsəfəkˈeɪʃən/   Listen
Ossification

noun
1.
The developmental process of bone formation.
2.
The calcification of soft tissue into a bonelike material.
3.
The process of becoming rigidly fixed in a conventional pattern of thought or behavior.
4.
Hardened conventionality.  Synonym: conformity.





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"Ossification" Quotes from Famous Books



... be a politician," returned the old man, gazing after him. "There are a few joints in a man that he ought to be able to bend in politics, but Harlan seems to be afflicted with a sort of righteous ossification. He'll have to have ...
— The Ramrodders - A Novel • Holman Day
... Avicenna from the same regions to dispute with him on the false notions he had promulgated respecting alchymy, and especially regarding potable gold and the elixir of life. He imagined that gold could cure ossification of the heart, and, in fact, all diseases, if it were gold which had been transmuted from an inferior metal by means of the philosopher's stone, and if it were applied under certain conjunctions of the planets. The mere list ...
— Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions - Vol. I • Charles Mackay
... minds in the world have thought and are thinking that if we could find a way of preventing the hardening of the cells of the system, producing in turn hardened arteries and what is meant by the general term "ossification," that the process of aging, growing old, could be greatly retarded, and that the condition of perpetual youth that we seem to catch glimpses of in rare individuals here and there could be made a more common occurrence than ...
— The Higher Powers of Mind and Spirit • Ralph Waldo Trine
... the judge comes stammering on to the stage, is he not actually preparing us, by this very stammering, to understand the phenomenon of intellectual ossification we are about to witness? What bond of secret relationship can there be between the physical defect and the moral infirmity? It is difficult to say; yet we feel that the relationship is there, though we cannot express it in words. Perhaps the situation required that this judging machine ...
— Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic • Henri Bergson
... in the laryngeal structure until middle life, when ossification of the cartilages commences. The thyroid is first affected, then the cricoid, and ...
— The Child-Voice in Singing • Francis E. Howard


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