Word Meanings - ECTOSTEAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Of or pertaining to ectostosis; as, ectosteal ossification.
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- ECTOSTOSIS
A process of bone formation in which ossification takes place in the perichondrium and either surrounds or gradually replaces the cartilage. - PERTAIN
stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant - ECTOSTEAL
Of or pertaining to ectostosis; as, ectosteal ossification. - OSSIFICATION
The formation of bone; the process, in the growth of an animal, by which inorganic material is deposited in cartilage or membrane, forming bony tissue; ostosis. Note: Besides the natural ossification of growing tissue, there is the so-called - FLOSSIFICATION
A flowering; florification. Craig. - GROSSIFICATION
The swelling of the ovary of plants after fertilization. Henslow. (more info) 1. The act of making gross or thick, or the state of becoming so. - APPERTAIN
To belong or pertain, whether by right, nature, appointment, or custom; to relate. Things appertaining to this life. Hooker. Give it unto him to whom it appertaineth. Lev. vi. 5. (more info) appartenir, fr. L. appertinere; ad + pertinere to reach