ossification Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun the developmental process of bone formation
  2. noun the calcification of soft tissue into a bonelike material
  3. noun the process of becoming rigidly fixed in a conventional pattern of thought or behavior
  4. noun hardened conventionality
    conformity.

WordNet

Os`si*fi*ca"tion noun
Etymology
Cf. F. ossification. See Ossify.
Definitions
  1. (Physiol.) 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. ✍ Besides the natural ossification of growing tissue, there is the so-called accidental ossification which sometimes follows certain abnormal conditions, as in the ossification of an artery.
  2. The state of being changed into a bony substance; also, a mass or point of ossified tissue.

Webster 1913