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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.

A flowering; florification. [R.] Craig.

The act of making gross or thick, or the state of becoming so.

Developed from an independent center of ossification. Owen. Autogenous soldering, the junction by fusion of the joining edges of metals without the intervention of solder.

tion, condensation, coagulation, induration, etc.; a clot; a lump; a calculus. Accidental ossifications or deposits of phosphates of lime in certain organs . . . are called osseous concretions. Dunglison.

Ossification of the dermis.

Of or pertaining to ectostosis; as, ectosteal ossification.

A process of bone formation in which ossification takes place in the perichondrium and either surrounds or gradually replaces the cartilage.

Relating to endostosis; as, endosteal ossification.

A process of bone formation in which ossification takes place within the substance of the cartilage.

A projection, formed by a separate ossification, at the scapular end of the clavicle of many birds.

Within cartilage; endochondral; as, intercartilaginous ossification.

Within or beneath a membrane; as, intermembranous ossification.

The postero-lateral ossification in the sternum of birds; also, the part resulting from such ossification.

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

Bone formation; ossification. See Ectostosis, and Endostosis.

Of or pertaining to parostosis; as, parosteal ossification.

Ossification which takes place in purely fibrous tracts; the formation of bone outside of the periosteum.

In front of the auditory capsule; -- applied especially to a bone, or center of ossification, in the periotic capsule. -- n.

ertaining to both the squamosal and zygomatic bones; -- applied to a bone, or a center of ossification, in some fetal skulls. -- n.