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ossified

  • adjective

Having undergone the process of ossification transformation into bone or a bone-like mass.

Example

“ossified cartilage”

Other meanings

  1. Inflexible, old-fashioned.

Related words

  • coossified
  • hyperossified
  • nonossified
  • underossified
  • unossified

Where this comes from

This definition is adapted from “ossified” on Wiktionary, by its contributors, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.