ossification

English

Noun

ossification (countable and uncountable, plural ossifications)

1. The normal process by which bone is formed.
2. The calcification of tissue into a bonelike mass; the mass so formed.
3. The process of becoming set in one's ways or beliefs; rigid conventionality.

Derived terms

• coossification
• deossification
• epiossification
• reossification

 

Related terms

• ossiferous
• ossific
• ossified
• ossifier
• ossify

 

Translations

process by which bone is formed

• Arabic: تعظم (taezam)
• Armenian: ոսկրացում (hy) (oskracʻum)
• Bulgarian: осификация f (osifikacija)
• Catalan: ossificació f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 骨化 (gwat¹ faa³)

  Mandarin: 骨化 (zh) (gǔhuà)

• Czech: osifikace f, kostnatění n
• Danish: forbening c, ossifikation c
• Dutch: ossificatie (nl) f, beenvorming f
• Finnish: luutuminen (fi)
• French: ossification (fr) f
• Galician: osificación (gl) f
• German: Ossifikation f, Verknöcherung (de) f
• Greek: οστεοποίηση (el) f (osteopoíisi)
• Hebrew: התגרמות f
• Ido: ostifado
• Indonesian: osifikasi (id)
• Irish: cnámhú m
• Italian: ossificazione (it) f
• Japanese: 骨化 (kokka)
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• Kazakh: оссификация (ossifikasiä), сүйек түзуі (süiek tüzuı)
• Latin: ossificatio f
• Latvian: osifikācija f
• Lithuanian: kaulėjimas m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: ossifikasjon m

  Nynorsk: ossifikasjon m

• Polish: kostnienie n, osyfikacja f
• Romanian: osificare (ro) f
• Russian: оссифика́ция (ru) f (ossifikácija), окостене́ние (ru) n (okostenénije)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: осифика́ција f

  Roman: osifikácija (sh) f

• Slovak: osifikácia (sk) f, kostnatenie n
• Slovene: osifikacija f
• Spanish: osificación f
• Swedish: ossifikation (sv) c, benbildning c, förbening c
• Thai: การกลายเป็นกระดูก (gaan-glaai-bpen-grà-dòok), การสร้างกระดูก (gaan-sà-râang-grà-dòok)
• Ukrainian: осифікація f (osyfikacija)

calcification of tissue

• Finnish: luutuminen (fi); luuduttaminen, luudutus (causing to ossify); luutuma (mass)
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process of becoming set mentally

• Finnish: luutuminen (fi)
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