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Ostosis :: Ostosis (n.) Bone formation; ossification. See Ectostosis, and Endostosis..

Flossification :: Flossification (n.) A flowering; florification.

Dermostosis :: Dermostosis (n.) Ossification of the dermis.

Parosteal :: Parosteal () Of or pertaining to parostosis; as, parosteal ossification..

Intermembranous :: Intermembranous (a.) Within or beneath a membrane; as, intermembranous ossification..

Ossification :: Ossification (n.) 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..

Intercartilaginous :: Intercartilaginous (a.) Within cartilage; endochondral; as, intercartilaginous ossification..

Squamozygomatic :: Squamozygomatic (a.) Of or pertaining to both the squamosal and zygomatic bones; -- applied to a bone, or a center of ossification, in some fetal skulls..

Ectosteal :: Ectosteal (a.) Of or pertaining to ectostosis; as, ectosteal ossification..

Parostosis :: Parostosis (n.) Ossification which takes place in purely fibrous tracts; the formation of bone outside of the periosteum.

Grossification :: Grossification (n.) The act of making gross or thick, or the state of becoming so..

Osteogen :: Osteogen (n.) The soft tissue, or substance, which, in developing bone, ultimately undergoes ossification..

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

Autogenous :: Autogenous (a.) Developed from an independent center of ossification.

Urosteon :: Urosteon (n.) A median ossification back of the lophosteon in the sternum of some birds.

Epicleidium :: Epicleidium (n.) A projection, formed by a separate ossification, at the scapular end of the clavicle of many birds..

Grossification :: Grossification (n.) The swelling of the ovary of plants after fertilization. Henslow.

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

Endostosis :: Endostosis (n.) A process of bone formation in which ossification takes place within the substance of the cartilage.

Metosteon :: Metosteon (n.) The postero-lateral ossification in the sternum of birds; also, the part resulting from such ossification..

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