0 If habits or ideas ossify, or if something ossifies them, they become fixed and unable to change:
1 If body tissue ossifies, it becomes hard and changes into bone.
The authors suggest that this could have resulted from relative motion between ossified bone and surrounding soft tissue, caused by radiation force on the bone.
It consists of two heavily ossified limbs with a membrane of bone interposed between them.
These bones are strongly ossified and heavily sculptured by irregular pits and low ridges.
We may find surprising results, fire station designs hidden in the rules, but this is limited, because the rules have ossified past decisions.
Libraries are being ossified into tombs of tomes.
Other features, less easily identified on ultrasound include hypoplastic scapulae, narrow iliac wings and a poorly ossified pubis.
The bones are delicate, feebly ossified.
To prop up the arguments here, or at least to see where they might stand if they were ossified, several lines of evidence can be noted.
