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ossification
ossification is a 12-letter English word with 6 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 17 in Scrabble and 19 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
12 letters · Scrabble 17 · Words With Friends 19 · 6 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
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.
- 2noun
The state of being changed into a bony substance; also, a mass or point of ossified tissue.
- 3noun
hardened conventionality
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- 4noun
the developmental process of bone formation
- 5noun
the process of becoming rigidly fixed in a conventional pattern of thought or behavior
- 6noun
the calcification of soft tissue into a bonelike material
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