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Six example sentences with ossify, each labelled with its topic.
The cartilage in a child's wrist will ossify gradually, which is why radiologists can estimate age from a hand image.
Medicine
In young sharks the skeleton never comes to ossify, staying flexible cartilage throughout a life of constant swimming.
Science
Stress fractures heal only when the thin bridge of new tissue begins to ossify, a process the team doctor tracks weekly.
Fitness
Scouts check whether a prospect's growth plates have begun to ossify before betting that a sixteen year old will grow taller.
Basketball
A hatchling turtle's shell takes years to ossify fully, which is why the youngest ones are easy prey for gulls.
Environment
Archaeologists judged the skeleton to be a teenager because several bones had not yet ossified at the joints.
History
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