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

All of the bones of the body, except for the flat bones of the skull, mandible, and clavicles, are formed through endochondral ossification.

From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022

Figure 29.21 Endochondral ossification is the process of bone development from hyaline cartilage.

From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022

There are two osteogenic pathways—intramembranous ossification and endochondral ossification—but bone is the same regardless of the pathway that produces it.

From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013

A distinction is drawn between an ossification and a calcification of the blood-vessels.

From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various