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
Ossification is distinct from the process of calcification; whereas calcification takes place during the ossification of bones, it can also occur in other tissues.
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
They then differentiate into osteoblasts at the ossification center.
From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022
The frontoparietals of pearsoni and verrucigerus have more extensive median ossification and less extensive anterolateral ossification.
From A Synopsis of Neotropical Hylid Frogs, Genus Osteocephalus by Duellman, William E.
