ossification

ossification

English

Etymology

From Latin os, ossis (“bone”) +‎ -ification. Recorded earlier than ossify.[1]

Noun

ossification (countable and uncountable, plural ossifications)

1. The normal process by which bone is formed.
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: تعظم‎ (taezam) Armenian: ոսկրացում (hy) (oskracʿum) 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 (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)

References

1. Douglas Harper (2001–2023), “ossification”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

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French

Noun

ossification f (plural ossifications)

1. ossification

Further reading

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