Examples of ossification

• Delays in skeletal ossification were the result of the progressive prolongation of earlier phases of fetal growth, including crucial phases of neurogenesis.

• He writes on institutional inertia, ceremonialism, and ossification.

• His major example has to do with the centers of ossification in the skull of the human fetus.

• Calcification should be differentiated f rom ossification, which usually has trabeculation.

• Institutional ossification and institutional crisis are closely related.

• Despite its very reduced size, the specimen appears to be an adult, based on the heavy ossification of most of the skeletal elements.

• Defective vascular invasion o f cartilage promotes enlargement of the hypertrophic zones of the growth plate, which delays the formation of secondary ossification centers.

• These bones are not preformed in cartilage but ossify from several ossification centres directly from ectomesenchyme, giving rise to the cranial vault (calvaria).