ossifies

v.

骨化，硬化，使僵化( ossify的第三人称单数 )；

1. It is easy for the mind to ossify.
   脑筋是易于僵化的。
2. 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.
   一切固定的僵化的关系以及与之相适应的素被尊崇的观念和见解都被消除了，一切新形成的关系等不到固定下来就陈旧了。

Cranial particulate bone graft ossifies calvarial defects by osteogenesis
Reharvested cranial particulate bone graft ossifies inlay calvarial defects.
Radiology of postnatal skeletal development. III. The clavicle.
Toward an Expanded Understanding of the Role of the Periosteum in Skeletal Health
Palatoquadrate and its ossifications: Development and homology within osteichthyans
Development of the skull of Dermophis mexicanus (amphibia: Gymnophiona), with comments on skull kinesis and amphibian relationships
Nonstress-bearing implantable bone prosthesis
Studies on Skeleton formation in reptiles. IV. The homology of the reptilian (amniote) astragalus revisited
Sequence of ossification in the skeleton of growing and metamorphosing tadpoles of Rana pipiens
Organization of the Olfactory and Respiratory Skeleton in the Nose of the Gray Short-Tailed Opossum Monodelphis domestica