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ossification

N การ ทำให้ แข็ง เหมือน กระดูก fossilization hardening kan-tam-hai-kang-muang-kra-duk

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

OSSIFICATION

n.[from ossify. ] 1. The change or process of changing from flesh or other matter of animal bodies into a bony substance; as the ossification of an artery.
2. The formation of bones in animals.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

OSSIFICATION

Os `si *fi *ca "tion, n. Etym: [Cf. F. ossification. See Ossify. ]

1. (Physiol.)

Defn: The formation of bone; the process, in the growth of an animal, by which inorganic material (mainly lime salts ) is deposited in cartilage or membrane, forming bony tissue; ostosis.

Note: Besides the natural ossification of growing tissue, there is the so-called accidental ossification which sometimes follows certain abnormal conditions, as in the ossification of an artery.

2. The state of being changed into a bony substance; also, a mass or point of ossified tissue.