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
They then differentiate into osteoblasts at the ossification center.
From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022
Secondary ossification centers form in the epiphyses as blood vessels and osteoblasts enter these areas and convert hyaline cartilage into spongy bone.
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
The parasphenoid is present as a faint median ossification, and the exoccipital shows some ossification.
From Neotropical Hylid Frogs, Genus Smilisca by Duellman, William E.
