Crossword-Solution: OSSIFIC
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Ossific | a. | Capable of producing bone; having the power to change cartilage or other tissue into bone. |
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| making something turn to bone | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
Godlike; heavenly; excellent in the highest degree;
supremely admirable; apparently above what is human. In this
application, the word admits of comparison; as, the divinest mind. Sir
J. Davies.
Hint 2 anagram
DVENII
Hint 3 another clue
"Delicious!"
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Sentences with OSSIFIC (5)
After receiving the assistance which could be afforded by two Physicians and a Surgeon, he was removed in a close chair to his house, in Leicester Fields, where he expired about two o'clock." Examination of the heart revealed disease involving the pericardium, endocardium and arteries, the coronary arteries in particular showing ossific change.
Thus physicians in their physiologies assign certain organs as the agents of chylification, others of sanguification, others of generation, &c.; and anatomists speak of the ossific, carnific, and neurific faculties, which they conceive produce bones, flesh, and nerves.
They are sculptured with radiate grooves and ridges, with decided inosculations at the ossific center.
Sir William Turner and other anatomists have fully confirmed this method of development from four ossific centres, and important additions to our knowledge of the subject have been made recently.
That the intermaxilla is derived from the union of four ossific portions, two on either side of the median line, and that these are to be known respectively as the endo- and meso-gnathion, whilst the superior maxilla is termed the exognathion.