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n.
Same as Ossicle.
n.
A little bone; as, the auditory ossicles in the tympanum of the ear.
a.
Of or pertaining to both the squamosal and zygomatic bones; -- applied to a bone, or a center of ossification, in some fetal skulls.
v. t.
Fig.: To harden; as, to ossify the heart.
a.
In front of the auditory capsule; -- applied especially to a bone, or center of ossification, in the periotic capsule.
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Feeding on bones; eating bones; as, ossivorous quadrupeds.
n.
One of the central ossicles in each joint of the arms of an ophiuran.
n.
A very large vulture (Gypaetus barbatus), which inhabits the mountains of Southern Europe, Asia, and Northern Africa. When full-grown it is nine or ten feet in extent of wings. It is brownish black above, with the under parts and neck rusty yellow; the forehead and crown white; the sides of the head and beard black. It feeds partly on carrion and partly on small animals, which it kills. It has the habit of carrying tortoises and marrow bones to a great height, and dropping them on stones to obtain the contents, and is therefore called bonebreaker and ossifrage. It is supposed to be the ossifrage of the Bible. Called also bearded vulture and bearded eagle.
n.
A charnel house; an ossuary.
a.
Composed of bone; resembling bone; capable of forming bone; bony; ossific.
pl.
of Ossiculum
n.
The innermost of the ossicles of the ear; the stirrup, or stirrup bone; -- so called from its form. See Illust. of Ear.
n.
The outermost of the three small auditory bones, ossicles; the hammer. It is attached to the tympanic membrane by a long process, the handle or manubrium. See Illust. of Far.
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Ossify
a.
Changing into bone; becoming bone; as, the ossifying process.
n.
A substance from the egg yolk of osseous fishes.
imp. & p. p.
of Ossify
n.
The state of being changed into a bony substance; also, a mass or point of ossified tissue.
a.
Of or pertaining to, or characteristic of, Ossian, a legendary Erse or Celtic bard.
n.
A median ossification back of the lophosteon in the sternum of some birds.
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