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Hasil cari dari kata atau frase: Ossifying (0.01350 detik)
Found 2 items, similar to Ossifying.
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: ossify
ossify
v 1: become bony;
“The tissue ossified”
2: make rigid and set into a conventional pattern;
“rigidify
the training schedule”;
“ossified teaching methods”;
“slogans petrify our thinking” [syn:
rigidify,
petrify]
3: cause to become hard and bony;
“The disease ossified the
tissue”
[also:
ossified]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Ossifying
Ossifying
\Os"si*fy`ing\, a. (Physiol.)
Changing into bone; becoming bone; as, the ossifying process.
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Ossify
\Os"si*fy\, v. t. [imp. & p. p.
Ossified; p. pr. & vb.
n.
Ossifying.] [L. os, ossis, bone + -fy: cf. F. ossifier.
See
Osseous.]
1. (Physiol.) To form into bone; to change from a soft animal
substance into bone, as by the deposition of lime salts.
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2. (Fig.): To harden; as, to ossify the heart. --Ruskin.
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