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Definition of Ossific

Ossific
Ossific Os*sif"ic, a. [L. os, ossis, bone + facere to make: cf. F. ossifique. See Fact.] Capable of producing bone; having the power to change cartilage or other tissue into bone.

Meaning of Ossific from wikipedia

- tendon, ligament etc.) to ossify when damaged Primrose syndrome, a rare genetic disease in which cartilage becomes ossified. Wikimedia Commons has media...
- birds, and ornithischian dinosaurs, portions of the tendon can become ossified. In this process, osteocytes infiltrate the tendon and lay down bone as...
- secondary. A primary ossification center is the first area of a bone to start ossifying. It usually appears during prenatal development in the central part of...
- for the postsphenoid. By about the ninth w**** of fetal development an ossific center appears for each of the small wings (orbito-sphenoids) just lateral...
- A non-ossifying fibroma (NOF) is a benign bone tumor of the osteoclastic, giant cell-rich tumor type. It generally occurs in the metaphysis of long bones...
- Osteofibrous dysplasia Other names Ossifying fibroma Specialty Oncology ...
- plate, and one for each labyrinth. The labyrinths are first developed, ossific granules making their appearance in the region of the lamina papyracea...
- ligament as it forms a bone to bone connection when the patella is fully ossified. The patellar tendon is a strong, flat ligament, which originates on the...
- A peripheral ossifying fibroma, also known as ossifying fibrous epulis, is “a gingival nodule which is composed of a cellular fibroblastic connective tissue...
- (extension) located in the inferior segment of the sternum, typically ossified in adult humans. Both the Gr****-derived term xiphoid and its Latin equivalent...