ossification

English

Etymology

From Latin os, ossis (“bone”) +‎ -ification. Recorded earlier than ossify.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌɒsɪfɪˈkeɪʃn̩/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˌɑsəfəˈkeɪʃən/
• Rhymes: -eɪʃən
• Hyphenation: os‧si‧fi‧cat‧ion

Noun

ossification (countable and uncountable, plural ossifications)

1. The normal process by which bone is formed.
   • 2010 January 29, Anita Woods et al., “Control of chondrocyte gene expression by actin dynamics: a novel role of cholesterol/Ror-α signalling in endochondral bone growth”, in Journal of Cellular and Molecular Medicine‎^[1], volume 13, →DOI:

     Ectopic chondrocyte hypertrophy has been demonstrated in OA, suggesting that the pathogenetical process involves a recapitulation of endochondral ossification [ 11 – 13 ].

2. The calcification of tissue into a bonelike mass; the mass so formed.
3. The process of becoming set in one's ways or beliefs; rigid conventionality.

Derived terms

• coossification
• deossification
• epiossification
• reossification

 

Related terms

• ossiferous
• ossific
• ossified
• ossifier
• ossify

 

Translations

process by which bone is formed

• Arabic: تَعَظُّم (taʕaẓẓum)
• Armenian: ոսկրացում (hy) (oskracʻum)
• Bulgarian: осификация f (osifikacija)
• Catalan: ossificació f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 骨化 (gwat¹ faa³)

  Mandarin: 骨化 (zh) (gǔhuà)

• Czech: osifikace f, kostnatění n
• Danish: forbening c, ossifikation c
• Dutch: ossificatie (nl) f, beenvorming f
• Finnish: luutuminen (fi)
• French: ossification (fr) f
• Galician: osificación (gl) f
• German: Ossifikation f, Verknöcherung (de) f
• Greek: οστεοποίηση (el) f (osteopoíisi)
• Hebrew: התגרמות f
• Ido: ostifado (io)
• Indonesian: osifikasi (id)
• Irish: cnámhú m
• Italian: ossificazione (it) f
• Japanese: 骨化 (ja) (kokka)
• Kazakh: оссификация (ossifikasiä), сүйек түзуі (süiek tüzuı)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: hestîbûn (ku)

• Latin: ossificatio f
• Latvian: osifikācija f
• Lithuanian: kaulėjimas m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: ossifikasjon m

  Nynorsk: ossifikasjon m

• Polish: kostnienie n, osyfikacja f
• Romanian: osificare (ro) f
• Russian: оссифика́ция (ru) f (ossifikácija), окостене́ние (ru) n (okostenénije)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: осифика́ција f, окошта́ва̄ње n

  Roman: osifikácija (sh) f, okoštávānje (sh) n

• Slovak: osifikácia (sk) f, kostnatenie n
• Slovene: osifikacija f
• Spanish: osificación f
• Swedish: ossifikation (sv) c, benbildning (sv) c, förbening c
• Thai: การกลายเป็นกระดูก (gaan-glaai-bpen-grà-dòok), การสร้างกระดูก (gaan-sà-râang-grà-dòok)
• Ukrainian: осифікація f (osyfikacija)

calcification of tissue

• Bulgarian: вкостеняване n (vkostenjavane)
• Finnish: luutuminen (fi); luuduttaminen, luudutus (causing to ossify); luutuma (mass)

process of becoming set mentally

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 僵化 (goeng¹ faa³)

• Finnish: luutuminen (fi)

French

Pronunciation

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

ossification f (plural ossifications)

1. ossification

Further reading

• “ossification”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.