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Valves of the Aorta of a cartilaginous texture, as if beginning to ossify.
AN ACCOUNT OF THE FOXGLOVE AND SOME OF ITS MEDICAL USESWILLIAM WITHERINGThe other element, the cartilaginous brain-box, does not ossify, and tends to become absorbed (p. 124).
FORM AND FUNCTIONE. S. (EDWARD STUART) RUSSELLThere is a general growth to be observed, and the bones are beginning to ossify.
EMBRYOLOGYGERALD R. LEIGHTONMaimuni, through his religious Code, gave rabbinical Judaism a strong hold, and on the other hand he helped to ossify it.
HISTORY OF THE JEWS, VOL. III (OF 6)HEINRICH GRAETZIn the young animal the ends of both radius and ulna are seen to ossify from centres different from those forming the shafts.
THE VERTEBRATE SKELETONSIDNEY H. REYNOLDSIts shaft and proximal end ossify from one centre, and its distal end from a second.
THE VERTEBRATE SKELETONSIDNEY H. REYNOLDSInstead of melting Mr. Waring's obduracy seemed to ossify under the effects of tears and entreaties.
THE HAUNTED HOMESTEADE. D. E. N. SOUTHWORTHThen the cartilaginous vertebræ ossify and form a true backbone.
THE WHENCE AND THE WHITHER OF MANJOHN MASON TYLER"And give you indigestion and see you ossify for want of exercise under my indulgent eye," retorted her mother.
MARJORIE DEANPAULINE LESTERI would add, however, that the "tarsal cartilages" in the turkey extensively ossify.
THE WILD TURKEY AND ITS HUNTINGEDWARD A. MCILHENNYWORDS RELATED TO OSSIFY
- amalgamate
- anneal
- bake
- brace
- buttress
- cake
- calcify
- callous
- cement
- close
- clot
- coagulate
- compact
- congeal
- consolidate
- contract
- crystallize
- curdle
- densify
- dry
- firm
- fix
- fortify
- fossilize
- freeze
- gird
- indurate
- jell
- nerve
- ossify
- petrify
- precipitate
- press
- reinforce
- set
- settle
- solidify
- starch
- steel
- stiffen
- strengthen
- temper
- thicken
- toughen
- vitrify
- acclimate
- acclimatize
- amalgamate
- anneal
- bake
- brace
- buttress
- cake
- calcify
- callous
- caseharden
- cement
- close
- clot
- coagulate
- compact
- concrete
- congeal
- consolidate
- contract
- crystallize
- curdle
- densify
- dry
- firm
- fix
- fortify
- fossilize
- freeze
- gird
- jell
- nerve
- ossify
- petrify
- precipitate
- press
- reinforce
- season
- set
- settle
- solidify
- starch
- steel
- stiffen
- strengthen
- temper
- thicken
- toughen
- vitrify
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