Ossified

6 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Ossified \Os"si*fied\, a.
     Changed to bone or something resembling bone; hardened by
     deposits of mineral matter of any kind; -- said of tissues.
     [1913 Webster]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:



  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.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. (Fig.): To harden; as, to ossify the heart. --Ruskin.
        [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  ossified
       adj 1: changed into bone; hardened by deposits of mineral matter;
              "cartilages ossified with age"
       2: set in a rigidly conventional pattern of behavior, habits,
          or beliefs; "obsolete fossilized ways"; "an ossified
          bureaucratic system" [syn: {fossilized}, {fossilised}]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  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}]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  ossified
       See {ossify}

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  33 Moby Thesaurus words for "ossified":
     backed, bone, bony, calcified, callous, calloused, case-hardened,
     crusted, crusty, crystallized, fossilized, granulated, hardened,
     hornified, incrusted, indurate, indurated, lapidified, osseous,
     ossicular, ossiferous, osteal, petrified, reinforced, rigidified,
     sclerotic, set, solidified, steeled, stiffened, strengthened,
     toughened, vitrified