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
Bones can grow in thickness throughout life, but after age 25, ossification functions primarily in bone remodeling and repair.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
The development of bone from fibrous membranes is called intramembranous ossification; development from hyaline cartilage is called endochondral ossification.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
The frontoparietals of pearsoni and verrucigerus have more extensive median ossification and less extensive anterolateral ossification.
From A Synopsis of Neotropical Hylid Frogs, Genus Osteocephalus by William E. Duellman
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