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Changing into bone; becoming bone; as, the ossifying process.

Feeding on bones; eating bones; as, ossivorous quadrupeds. Derham.

A place where the bones of the dead are deposited; a charnel house. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

Inflammation of bone.

A combining form of Gr. a bone.

r in the osteogenetic layer of the periosteum, and from or around which the matrix of the bone is developed; an osteoplast.

The operation of breaking a bone in order to correct deformity.

A kind of glue obtained from bones. Ure.

Pain in the bones; a violent fixed pain in any part of a bone. -- Os`te*o*cop"ic, a.

A hard substance, somewhat like bone, which is sometimes deposited within the pulp cavity of teeth.

The soft tissue, or substance, which, in developing bone, ultimately undergoes ossification.

The formation or growth of bone.

Connected with osteogenesis, or the formation of bone; producing bone; as, osteogenetic tissue; the osteogenetic layer of the periosteum.

The description of bones; osteology.

Resembling bone; bonelike.

The science which treats of the bones of the vertebrate skeleton.

Softening and absorption of bone. -- Os`te*o*lyt"ic (#), a.

A tumor composed mainly of bone; a tumor of a bone.

A disease of the bones, in which they lose their earthy material, and become soft, flexible, and distorted. Also called malacia.

Divination by means of bones. [R.]