ossification

Example Sentences

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Johnson’s supporters may be right in seeing ossification in the oligopolistic economics of the EU.

From The Guardian

The individuals the co-authors identify as near hatching were “probably mid-term, not ready to hatch by any stretch of the imagination,” based on their lack of teeth and “relatively poor level of ossification,” Unwin adds.

From Scientific American

“We will resist the ossification which often accompanies institutionalization,” they wrote with youthful brio in their founding manifesto, “A Statement of Artistic Intent.”

From Washington Post

In an atmosphere of such in-built ossification, the courage of Wonder Woman is more stunning even than her lasso.

From The Guardian

Sixty to seventy per cent of those injuries exhibited heterotopic ossification: the wounds had bone growing in the soft tissue, where it didn’t belong.

From The New Yorker