Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun ossification

4 senses of ossification

Sense 1
ossification -- (the developmental process of bone formation)
       => organic process, biological process -- (a process occurring in living organisms)

Sense 2
ossification -- (the calcification of soft tissue into a bonelike material)
       => calcification -- (a process that impregnates something with calcium (or calcium salts))

Sense 3
ossification -- (the process of becoming rigidly fixed in a conventional pattern of thought or behavior)
       => human process -- (a process in which human beings are involved)

Sense 4
ossification, conformity -- (hardened conventionality)
       => conventionality, convention, conventionalism -- (orthodoxy as a consequence of being conventional)