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 development of bone from fibrous membranes is called intramembranous ossification; development from hyaline cartilage is called endochondral ossification.

From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 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

These cells then differentiate directly into bone producing cells, which form the skull bones through the process of intramembranous ossification.

From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013

In contrast to the tendency for reduction of cranial parts in the sordida group, the baudini group, constituted by S. cyanosticta, phaeota, and baudini, is characterized by more ossification of the cranial elements.

From Neotropical Hylid Frogs, Genus Smilisca by Duellman, William E.