OSSIFICATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does ossification mean? 

• OSSIFICATION (noun)
  The noun OSSIFICATION has 4 senses:

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

  Familiarity information: OSSIFICATION used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• OSSIFICATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The developmental process of bone formation

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural processes

Hypernyms ("ossification" is a kind of...):

biological process; organic process (a process occurring in living organisms)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The calcification of soft tissue into a bonelike material

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural processes

Hypernyms ("ossification" is a kind of...):

calcification (a process that impregnates something with calcium (or calcium salts))

Derivation:

ossify (become bony)

ossify (cause to become hard and bony)

Sense 3

Meaning:

The process of becoming rigidly fixed in a conventional pattern of thought or behavior

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural processes

Hypernyms ("ossification" is a kind of...):

human process (a process in which human beings are involved)

Derivation:

ossify (make rigid and set into a conventional pattern)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Hardened conventionality

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

conformity; ossification

Hypernyms ("ossification" is a kind of...):

convention; conventionalism; conventionality (orthodoxy as a consequence of being conventional)

Derivation:

ossify (make rigid and set into a conventional pattern)

 Context examples 

This gene plays a role in osteoblast differentiation and ossification.

(DMP1 Gene, NCI Thesaurus)

A cell of the loose cellular inner layer of the periosteal tissue in the intramembranous ossification of bone

(Periosteal Cell, NCI Thesaurus)

A disease characterized by bony deposits or the ossification of muscle tissue.

(Myositis Ossificans, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

A rare benign disorder characterized by lack of normal endochondral ossification, and the growth of multiple enchondromas.

(Enchondromatosis, NCI Thesaurus)

This allele, which encodes dentin matrix acidic phosphoprotein 1, is involved in the modulation of ossification.

(DMP1 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

"Presumably, ossified particles originate during the processes of bone marrow blood vessel ossification and are capable of entering into the peripheral circulation," the team writes.

(Bone-Like Particles Found Travelling through Human Bloodstream, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

It is characterized by ossification of ligaments resulting in calcifications along the sides of the spinal vertebrae.

(Diffuse Idiopathic Skeletal Hyperostosis, NCI Thesaurus)

Histologically, it corresponds to similar tumors arising in bone, but should be differentiated from asymptomatic dural calcification, ossification related to metabolic disease or trauma, and neuroectodermal tumors such as astrocytoma and gliosarcoma that occasionally show osseous or chondroid differentiation.

(Osteochondroma of the Central Nervous System, NCI Thesaurus)