| Perhaps in the end the boutiques will themselves multiply and ossify into sterile chains. |
| The flat bones ossify directly from such fibrous tissue rather than from intermediary cartilage. |
| In short, rather than incarnating societies' dynamism, it may sometimes ossify their structures and regulations. |
| The postcranial skeleton, and especially the vertebrae, carpals and tarsals, were very slow to ossify. |
| Because of deep specialization, the scientific enterprise has a built-in tendency to ossify. |
| The mentomecklians do not ossify until approximately the same time that the quadratojugal appears in the upper jaw. |
