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

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

These cells then differentiate directly into bone producing cells, which form the skull bones through the process of intramembranous ossification.

From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013

The clavicle develops via intramembranous ossification, in which mesenchyme is converted directly into bone tissue.

From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013

We thus see, for example, in the hardening of the bones, an unmistakable analogy to crystallisation, as the force which originally had possession of the chalk, although ossification is never to be reduced to crystallisation.

From The World As Will And Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Schopenhauer, Arthur