Ossicle vs Ossify - What's the difference?
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(anatomy) A small bone (or bony structure), especially one of the three of the middle ear.
* 1836 , William Buckland, Geology and Mineralogy, Considered with Reference to Natural Theology , vol. 1, William Pickering, p. 174:
(zoology) Bone-like joint or plate, especially:
# one of numerous small calcareous structures forming the skeleton of certain echinoderms, as the starfishes;
# one of the hard articuli or joints of the stem or branches of a crinoid or encrinite;
# one of the several small hard chitinous parts or processes of the gastric skeleton of crustaceans, as in the stomach of a lobster or crawfish.
# The skeleton of echinoderms is made of ossicles , linked to each other via muscles and connective tissue.
(ambitransitive) To transform (or cause to transform) from a softer animal substance into bone; particularly the processes of growth in humans and animals.
* 1884 , Arthur C. Cole, Studies in Microscopical Science ,
(ambitransitive, animate) To become (or cause to become) inflexible and rigid in habits or opinions.
* 1996 , , The Art of the Long View , p. 96,
* 2006 , Michael S. Jones, Metaphysics of Religion: Lucian Blaga and Contemporary Philosophy , p. 79,
(ambitransitive, inanimate) To grow (or cause to grow) formulaic and permanent.
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* 2001 , , translated by Kevin O'Neill and David Suchoff, The Wisdom of Love , p. 55,
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(rare) To calcify.
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As a noun ossicle
is (anatomy) a small bone (or bony structure), especially one of the three of the middle ear.As a verb ossify is
(ambitransitive) to transform (or cause to transform) from a softer animal substance into bone; particularly the processes of growth in humans and animals.ossicle
English
(wikipedia ossicle)Noun
(en noun)- The incus is one of the three auditory ossicles .
- The eyeballs were surrounded by a ring of bones, the sclerotic ossicle , which probably protected their eyes when diving abruptly for prey.
Synonyms
* auditory bone * auditory ossicle * bonelet * ossicular chain * ossicule * ossiculum * otic boneDerived terms
* ambulacral ossicle * Andernach's ossicles * cardiac ossicle * carpal ossicle * epactal ossicles * episternal ossicles * intercalcar ossicles * Kerckring's (Kerkring's) ossicle * marginal ossicles * ossicle of Bertin * ossicular * ossiculate * ossiculectomy * ossiculotomy * Riolan's ossicles * sphenoturbinal ossicle * tarsal ossicle * vertebral ossicle * Weberian ossicles * wormian ossiclesSee also
* bone * incus * malleus * stapesAnagrams
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Verb
(en-verb)p. 35,
- , nor do all bones of the same skeleton ossify during the sam? period of time.
- Before long, the entire organization ossifies .
- Possession of absolute knowledge would ossify the human spirit, quenching human creativity;
- This accidental repartition gets repeated, develops advantages of its own, and gradually ossifies into a systematic division of labour.
- Now, in turn, we apply a revolutionary critique that ossifies into a rhetoric to become "the monstrous Latin of a monstrous church."
The war on 'Munich'", Salon.com , December 20, 2005,
- [T]he charge threatens to ossify into conventional wisdom before the movie's audience can get to theaters to see how misguided it is.
- The cartilages become brittle, and in many instances are ossified ; the ligaments are rendered harder, but are less capable of resisting extension.