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 clavicle develops via intramembranous ossification, in which mesenchyme is converted directly into bone tissue.
From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013
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
In contrast, the cranial base and facial bones are produced by the process of endochondral ossification, in which mesenchyme tissue initially produces a hyaline cartilage model of the future bone.
From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013
Breaking this deathly ossification was just a matter of will.
From Out of the Air by Gillmore, Inez Haynes
