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ossify

/os-uh-fahy/US // ˈɒs əˌfaɪ //UK // (ˈɒsɪˌfaɪ) //

硬化,骨化,僵化,渗入

Related Words

stiffen变硬,变硬了,硬化,僵化thicken增厚,加厚,变稠,变厚indurate缩略语,不清楚的,缩略图,缩微的freeze冻结,冻住,冷冻,凝固harden变硬,变硬了,硬化,变硬的congeal凝固,凝固的,凝结,凝滞solidify固化,凝固,巩固,凝结petrify石化,岩化,岩浆,岩石化fossilize化石化,变成化石,化石,形成化石

Definitions

v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    os·si·fied, os·si·fy·ing.

    • : to convert into or cause to harden like bone.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1

    os·si·fied, os·si·fy·ing.

    • : to become bone or harden like bone.
    • : to become rigid or inflexible in habits, attitudes, opinions, etc.: a young man who began to ossify right after college.

Synonyms & Antonyms

verbbecome hard from aging
Forms: ossified
Synonyms
congeal凝固,凝固的,凝结,凝滞fossilize化石化,变成化石,化石,形成化石freeze冻结,冻住,冷冻,凝固harden变硬,变硬了,硬化,变硬的indurate缩略语,不清楚的,缩略图,缩微的petrify石化,岩化,岩浆,岩石化solidify固化,凝固,巩固,凝结stiffen变硬,变硬了,硬化,僵化thicken增厚,加厚,变稠,变厚turn to bone变成骨头,变成了骨头,变成骨架,变成骨质

Examples

  • Valves of the Aorta of a cartilaginous texture, as if beginning to ossify.

  • The other element, the cartilaginous brain-box, does not ossify, and tends to become absorbed (p. 124).

  • There is a general growth to be observed, and the bones are beginning to ossify.

  • Maimuni, through his religious Code, gave rabbinical Judaism a strong hold, and on the other hand he helped to ossify it.

  • In the young animal the ends of both radius and ulna are seen to ossify from centres different from those forming the shafts.

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