| Fossilized embryos are rarely discovered, because their bones only begin to ossify late in development. |
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| The joint between the incus and stapes is likewise a cartilagenous joint, with a tendency to ossify in older humans. |
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| The flat bones ossify directly from such fibrous tissue rather than from intermediary cartilage. |
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| Because of deep specialization, the scientific enterprise has a built-in tendency to ossify. |
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| The postcranial skeleton, and especially the vertebrae, carpals and tarsals, were very slow to ossify. |
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| Perhaps in the end the boutiques will themselves multiply and ossify into sterile chains. |
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| But one has to avoid instituting distrust by imposing rigid structures that will ossify the organization. |
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| If we did this, our cities would stand still, ossify and die. |
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| In short, rather than incarnating societies' dynamism, it may sometimes ossify their structures and regulations. |
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| The monopoly of postal services would cause them to ossify and lose volume which would lead to losses of jobs. |
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| The problem with union rights requiring judges and courts to uphold them is that they ossify and become the target of lawyers and others who wish to destroy them. |
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| The coronal, lambdoidal, sagittal, and squamosal sutures close clinically between six to 12 months of age but do not ossify completely until after 30 years of age. |
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| Early fracture of its upper end, which may not ossify for some years after birth, may result in separated or angulated portions appearing on x-ray after mid-childhood. |
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| As a result of the constant digging action, elements of the forelimb that are associated with those movements will begin to ossify. |
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| Some elements in the hands of the Talpa, formally described as distal phalanges, are actually the first to ossify. |
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| Mr Whitacre's detailed account is worth reading, if only to show how the most magnificent system can ossify and corporate survival can sometimes come down to how well people confront difficult, often unquantifiable, choices. |
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| The attacks didn't create their homophobia they're fully responsible for that but it did help ossify their self-righteousness, and it's part of why they now interpret criticism as a sign that they're doing the right thing. |
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| Without complete liberty of opinion, he insisted, civilizations ossify. |
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| They believed that the implementation of per-call tariff information could ossify tariff structures and make tariff innovations harder to implement. |
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| And without such user input, a technology can quickly ossify. |
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| All fixed, fast-frozen relations, with their train of ancient and venerable prejudices and opinions, are swept away, all new-formed ones become antiquated before they can ossify. |
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| The epiphysis of the distal phalanges begins to ossify at 12 to 36 months of age and closes at approximately 13 to 16 years. |
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| The suspensory ligaments and tendons of the ossicles can degenerate as a result of chronic otitis media, and they can subsequently calcify and ossify. |
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