OSSIFY (ossified)

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Irregular inflected form: ossified   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does ossify mean? 

• OSSIFY (verb)
  The verb OSSIFY has 3 senses:

1. become bony

2. make rigid and set into a conventional pattern

3. cause to become hard and bony

  Familiarity information: OSSIFY used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• OSSIFY (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they ossify    ... he / she / it ossifies   
Past simple: ossified   
Past participle: ossified   
-ing form: ossifying   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Become bony

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Context example:

The tissue ossified

Hypernyms (to "ossify" is one way to...):

change state; turn (undergo a transformation or a change of position or action)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Derivation:

ossification (the calcification of soft tissue into a bonelike material)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Make rigid and set into a conventional pattern

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

ossify; petrify; rigidify

Context example:

slogans petrify our thinking

Hypernyms (to "ossify" is one way to...):

stiffen (make stiff or stiffer)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s something

Derivation:

ossification (hardened conventionality)

ossification (the process of becoming rigidly fixed in a conventional pattern of thought or behavior)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Cause to become hard and bony

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Context example:

The disease ossified the tissue

Hypernyms (to "ossify" is one way to...):

alter; change; modify (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Derivation:

ossification (the calcification of soft tissue into a bonelike material)

 Context examples 

Although the number of ossified particles didn't appear to increase with the age of the patient, the size of them did.

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

An autosomal dominant inherited syndrome characterized by the development of parathyroid adenoma or carcinoma, ossifying fibroma of the mandible and maxilla, renal neoplasms, and renal cysts.

(Hyperparathyroidism-Jaw Tumor Syndrome, NCI Thesaurus)

It associated with one of four tumor types: phosphaturic mesenchymal tumor, mixed connective tissue type; osteoblastoma-like tumor; ossifying fibroma-like tumor or non-ossifying fibroma-like tumor.

(Oncogenic Osteomalacia, NCI Thesaurus)

Neoplasms composed of bony tissue, whether normal or of a soft tissue which has become ossified.

(Bone Neoplasm, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

Some of the ossified particles have sharp tips and edges that could damage the lining of blood vessels.

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

The investigation also indicated the presence of bone-like particles in those ossified blood vessels.

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

"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)

While the majority of the ossified particles were small in diameter (less 15 μm), a significant number were of sufficient size (over 15 μm) to block small blood vessels throughout the vascular tree, the researchers explain in their study.

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

Thus, in addition to examining ossified bone marrow blood vessels via ultra-high microscopy, we sought to confirm, characterize and quantify the presence of ossified particles in peripheral whole blood samples from humans and rats.

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

In a previous study authored by Prisby, she characterized severe calcification in the blood vessels that are found in bone marrow, indicating that both in rat samples and human patients these vessels looked as if they'd turned to bone, or ossified.

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