ossification (n.)

  1. the developmental process of bone formation

  2. the calcification of soft tissue into a bonelike material

  3. the process of becoming rigidly fixed in a conventional pattern of thought or behavior

  4. hardened conventionality

    [ Syn: conformity ]

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