Betydelse av ossified på svenska

• 0 (of habits or ideas) fixed and unable to change:

  • The institutions of government have become more ossified and inflexible.

  • He tried to push liberalizing policies through an ossified bureaucracy.

• 1 (of body tissue) having become hard and changed into bone:

  • The bones in the creature's feet were only partially ossified.

  • With increasing age the joints between the bones may become ossified.