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Os·si·fied a. Changed to bone or something resembling bone; hardened by deposits of mineral matter of any kind; -- said of tissues.
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Os·si·fy v. t. [imp. & p. p. Ossified p. pr. & vb. n. Ossifying ]
1. Physiol. To form into bone; to change from a soft animal substance into bone, as by the deposition of lime salts.
2. (Fig.): To harden; as, to ossify the heart.
ossified
adj 1: changed into bone; hardened by deposits of mineral matter;
"cartilages ossified with age"
2: set in a rigidly conventional pattern of behavior, habits,
or beliefs; "obsolete fossilized ways"; "an ossified
bureaucratic system" [syn: fossilized, fossilised]
ossify
v 1: become bony; "The tissue ossified"
2: make rigid and set into a conventional pattern; "rigidify
the training schedule"; "ossified teaching methods";
"slogans petrify our thinking" [syn: rigidify, petrify]
3: cause to become hard and bony; "The disease ossified the
tissue"
[also: ossified]