OSSIFIED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does ossified mean? 

• OSSIFIED (adjective)
  The adjective OSSIFIED has 1 sense:

1. set in a rigidly conventional pattern of behavior, habits, or beliefs

  Familiarity information: OSSIFIED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• OSSIFIED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Set in a rigidly conventional pattern of behavior, habits, or beliefs

Synonyms:

fossilised; fossilized; ossified

Context example:

an ossified bureaucratic system

Similar:

inflexible (incapable of change)

 Context examples 

Neoplasms composed of bony tissue, whether normal or of a soft tissue which has become ossified.

(Bone Neoplasm, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

Although the number of ossified particles didn't appear to increase with the age of the patient, the size of them did.

(Bone-Like Particles Found Travelling through Human Bloodstream, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The investigation also indicated the presence of bone-like particles in those ossified blood vessels.

(Bone-Like Particles Found Travelling through Human Bloodstream, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Some of the ossified particles have sharp tips and edges that could damage the lining of blood vessels.

(Bone-Like Particles Found Travelling through Human Bloodstream, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

"Presumably, ossified particles originate during the processes of bone marrow blood vessel ossification and are capable of entering into the peripheral circulation," the team writes.

(Bone-Like Particles Found Travelling through Human Bloodstream, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Thus, in addition to examining ossified bone marrow blood vessels via ultra-high microscopy, we sought to confirm, characterize and quantify the presence of ossified particles in peripheral whole blood samples from humans and rats.

(Bone-Like Particles Found Travelling through Human Bloodstream, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

In a previous study authored by Prisby, she characterized severe calcification in the blood vessels that are found in bone marrow, indicating that both in rat samples and human patients these vessels looked as if they'd turned to bone, or ossified.

(Bone-Like Particles Found Travelling through Human Bloodstream, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

While the majority of the ossified particles were small in diameter (less 15 μm), a significant number were of sufficient size (over 15 μm) to block small blood vessels throughout the vascular tree, the researchers explain in their study.

(Bone-Like Particles Found Travelling through Human Bloodstream, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)