ossification
Example Sentences
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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
A lot of the military get this ossification.
From The Guardian
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
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