(n.) The formation of bone; the process, in the growth of an animal, by which inorganic material (mainly lime salts) is deposited in cartilage or membrane, forming bony tissue; ostosis.
(n.) The state of being changed into a bony substance; also, a mass or point of ossified tissue.
Example Sentences:
(1) Radiologic abnormalities included an unusual "moth-eaten" appearance of the markedly short long bones, bizzare ectopic ossification centers, and marked platyspondyly with unusual ossification centers.
(2) Despite study for over 100 years, sites and patterns of laryngeal calcification and ossification are understood incompletely.
(3) The tumor has a remarkable tendency to grow from the periostal tissues peripherally with a usually marked degree of ossification without primary medullary involvement.
(4) The site of ossification assumed the appearance of the original costochondral junction.
(5) Radiological findings can include a large, poorly ossified skull with decreased ossification in the sutural areas.
(6) For the sternum, humerus and ilium-ischium, however, ossification in A2 fetuses increased to the levels observed in the PF and C groups.
(7) The authors emphasize the value of serial scintigrams before surgery to assess the maturation of ossification.
(8) This paper reports the results of a radiological population study on the ossification of the posterior longitudinal ligament (OPLL) in both the cervical and the thoracic spine among Japanese.
(9) Phthisical eyes of 2 patients revealed clinically unsuspected, partially necrotic and partially vital malignant melanomas of the uvea and extensive intraocular ossification.
(10) Postoperatively, bladder capacity was adequate without evidence of incrustation or ossification.
(11) Neither the metaphyses nor epiphyseal ossification centres were affected by the condition.
(12) In the resected specimen, the margins of the soft part tumor showed shell-like ossification, suggesting the subperiosteal or intraosteal origin.
(13) Pathologic features include focal and diffuse calcification and ossification in the anterior longitudinal ligament, paraspinal connective tissue, and annulus fibrosis, degeneration in the peripheral annulus fibrosis fibers, L-T-, and Y-shaped anterolateral extensions of fibrous tissue, hypervascularity, chronic inflammatory cellular infiltration, and periosteal new bone formation on the anterior surface of the vertebral bodies.
(14) Recurrent ossifications were detected in them some years after surgery, and one of them complained of dysphagia again.
(15) The occurrence of lumbar heterotopic ossification seems not to have been previously reported in the literature.
(17) Radiographic findings that were tabulated included joint space narrowing, sternal or costal osteophytes, articular calcification, vacuum phenomena, and the degree of ossification of the costal cartilages.
(18) Canal structures, remnants of the craniopharyngeal canal, were observed in specimens showing bilateral centers of ossification in the sphenoid corpus.
(19) Heterotopic ossification occurred more often in male patients (23%) than in female (10%), and was most frequent in the 20- to 30-year age group.
(20) The aim of the investigation was to elucidate further the role of nutritional factors in the pathogenesis of disturbed endochondral ossification, occurring in osteochondrosis.
Ossify
Definition:
(v. t.) To form into bone; to change from a soft animal substance into bone, as by the deposition of lime salts.
(v. t.) Fig.: To harden; as, to ossify the heart.
(v. i.) To become bone; to change from a soft tissue to a hard bony tissue.
Example Sentences:
(1) Marginal osteophytes developed from soft cellular tissue which later underwent chondrification and finally became ossified.
(2) The frequencies in the two groups are as follows: In the benign group, osteoma had the highest incidence and then, with decreasing frequencies: osteochondroma, chondroma, synovioma, giant cell tumor, ossifying fibroma, osteoid osteoma, chondromyxoid fibroma.
(3) Radiological findings can include a large, poorly ossified skull with decreased ossification in the sutural areas.
(4) By means of the presentation of several cases of Stylohyoid Complex partially or totally ossified, the authors emphasize in the necessity to have in mind this diagnosis in every patient with craniofacial pains, although it is in sometimes a casual radiological finding in a asymptomatic patient.
(5) Treatment was surgical resection of 1 cm of the ossified ligament.
(6) The foci of the red bone marrow, termed as the "marrow foci", were observed in the ossified portion of the cartilages.
(7) Measurements for radioulnar variance in adults cannot be used in children because the epiphyses are not fully ossified.
(8) The histologic diagnosis was sclerosing (ossifying) xanthoma.
(9) Ossifying renal tumor of infancy is a rare lesion, with only 2 cases reported in the literature.
(10) The computed tomographic findings in a case of cemento-ossifying fibroma involving the maxilla and maxillary sinus are presented.
(11) Four of them (4.9%) presented the classical hypertrophic osteoarthropathy (HOA) described by Bamberger and Pierre Marie, i.e., finger clubbing, ossifying periostitis of the long bones, joint pains and swelling.
(12) Observations of patients with plasma cell osteomyelitis and chronic destructive sympathetic arthritis indicate a special set of findings due to plasma cell osteomyelitis: metadiaphyseal ossifying periostitis, extreme demineralisation of the adjacent epiphysis with spotty focal sclerosis of the spongiosa and a chronic arthritis.
(13) Ossifying enthesitis is a common characteristics of "classic" spondylo-arthropathies which are all ossifying polyenthesites: ankylosing spondylarthritis, psoriasic rheumatism, rheumatism of enteropathies, Fiessinger-Leroy-Reiter syndrome and juvenile spondylo-arthropathies.
(14) The lesion was reoperated 3 years after the primary diagnosis with resection of the non-ossified tumour site and reconstruction with a vascularized fibular graft.
(15) Smears consisting primarily of spindle cells or fibrous tissue may lead to an erroneous diagnosis of a fibrohistiocytic neoplasm, fibrous dysplasia, fibrous cortical defect or ossifying fibroma.
(16) Spheroidal calcifications, however, were identified in ossifying fibroma only, but not in all of these.
(17) A case of peripheral ossifying fibroma is presented.
(18) They can appear in form of: hemorrhagic cyst (25), self-organizing hematoma (14) and ossifying hematoma (3 patients).
(19) The distinctive feature of the first case was the presence of ossified loose bodies surrounding the head of the condyle, whereas in the second there was clear evidence of arthrosis.
(20) To investigate the validity of balloon valvuloplasty, this procedure was carried out in the operating room under direct vision in 30 patients just prior to excision and replacement of the ossified aortic valve.