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Ossified
Having undergone the process of ossification (transformation into bone).
📖 Definitions of "Ossified"
adjective
- 1
Having undergone the process of ossification (transformation into bone).
"ossified cartilage"
- 2
(of ideas or attitudes) Inflexible, old-fashioned.
- 3
Drunk
verb
- 1
To transform (or cause to transform) from a softer animal substance into bone; particularly the processes of growth in humans and animals.
- 2
(animate) To become (or cause to become) inflexible and rigid in habits or opinions.
- 3
(inanimate) To grow (or cause to grow) formulaic and permanent.
- 4
To calcify.
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