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Definition of Ossifications

Ossification
Ossification Os`si*fi*ca"tion, n. [Cf. F. ossification. See Ossify.] 1. (Physiol.) The formation of bone; the process, in the growth of an animal, by which inorganic material (mainly lime salts) is deposited in cartilage or membrane, forming bony tissue; ostosis. Note: Besides the natural ossification of growing tissue, there is the so-called accidental ossification which sometimes follows certain abnormal conditions, as in the ossification of an artery. 2. The state of being changed into a bony substance; also, a mass or point of ossified tissue.

Meaning of Ossifications from wikipedia

- Ossification (also called osteogenesis or bone mineralization) in bone remodeling is the process of laying down new bone material by cells named osteoblasts...
- Endochondral ossification is one of the two essential pathways by which bone tissue is produced during fetal development of the mammalian skeletal system...
- ossification (HO) is the process by which bone tissue forms outside of the skeleton in muscles and soft tissue. In traumatic heterotopic ossification...
- Protocol ossification is the loss of flexibility, extensibility and evolvability of network protocols. This is largely due to middleboxes that are sensitive...
- Intramembranous ossification is one of the two essential processes during fetal development of the gnathostome (excluding chondrichthyans such as sharks)...
- An ossification center is a point where ossification of the hyaline cartilage begins. The first step in ossification is that the chondrocytes at this...
- The temporal bones are situated at the sides and base of the skull, and lateral to the temporal lobes of the cerebral cortex. The temporal bones are overlaid...
- The ethmoid bone (/ˈɛθmɔɪd/; from Ancient Gr****: ἡθμός, romanized: hēthmós, lit. 'sieve') is an unpaired bone in the skull that separates the nasal cavity...
- vomer is ossified in the membrane covering its posteroinferior part. Two ossification centers, one on either side of the middle line, appear about the eighth...
- Ossification of the posterior longitudinal ligament (OPLL) is a process of fibrosis, calcification, and ossification of the posterior longitudinal ligament...