ossification

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The ossification of the bone fragments also indicates that pressure was occasionally applied to the stump as the young hunter-gatherer probably rested on it after the limb was removed, he added.

From Washington Post • Sep. 7, 2022

The effect of gravity and the lack of buoyancy on land meant that body weight was suspended on the limbs, leading to increased strengthening and ossification of the limbs.

From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022

Bones can grow in thickness throughout life, but after age 25, ossification functions primarily in bone remodeling and repair.

From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022

The process of endochondral ossification, which converts the cartilage models into bone, begins by the twelfth week of embryonic development.

From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013

"My Sulphuretted Tablets will knock out the ossification and as for the rest it's all diet."

From The Cassowary What Chanced in the Cleft Mountains by Waterloo, Stanley