Definition of Ossifying

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

Definition of Ossifying

1. Verb. (present participle of ossify) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Ossifying

1. ossify [v] - See also: ossify

Medical Definition of Ossifying

1. Changing into bone; becoming bone; as, the ossifying process. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Ossifying

ossiferous
ossific
ossific centre
ossification
ossification of posterior longitudinal ligament
ossifications
ossified
ossifier
ossifiers
ossifies
ossiform
ossifrage
ossifrages
ossifragous
ossify
ossifying (current term)
ossifying cartilage
ossilegium
ossis
ossivorous
osso buco
ossuaries
ossuary
ost-
ostea
osteal
ostealgia
ostealgic
osteanagenesis
osteanaphysis

Literary usage of Ossifying

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Practitioner by Gale Group, ProQuest Information and Learning Company (1899)
"(a) The essential change is located at the line of ossifying cartilage, where the epiphysis joins the diaphysis. Here the cells are altered in size, ..."

2. Monographic Medicine by William Robie Patten Emerson, Guido Guerrini, William Brown, Wendell Christopher Phillips, John Whitridge Williams, John Appleton Swett, Hans Günther, Mario Mariotti, Hugh Grant Rowell (1916)
"... is associated with acute polyneuritis. The symptoms are those of the muscular and the neural disease combined. iii. Progressive ossifying Myositis ..."

3. Special pathology and therapeutics of the diseases of domestic animals v. 2 by Ferenc Hutyra (1913)
"Primary ossifying inflammation of the dura of the cord was observed by Mauri in 1878, Bonnet in 1881, Kitt and Stoss in 1883, and Fröhner in 1893. ..."

4. Manual of Human Histology by Albert Kölliker, George Busk (1853)
"Changes in the ossifying Cartilage.—The active vegetative process in the cartilage-cells when ossification is going on, depends upon this,—that the cells ..."

5. A Biennial Retrospect of Medicine, Surgery and Their Allied Sciences by New Sydenham Society (1875)
"... "Adenoid or spindle-celled Sarcoma," ' Path. Soc. Trans.,' xxv, 233. Butlin, " Recurrent ossifying spindle-celled Sarcoma from the ..."

6. The Treatment of Disease: A Manual of Practical Medicine by Reynold Webb Wilcox (1907)
"The abscesses in the suppurative type should be opened and drained and the bony growths of the ossifying form may be excised if necessary. ..."

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