ossification

The natural process of bone formation.

The hardening or calcification of soft tissue into a bonelike material.

A mass or deposit of such material.

The process of becoming set in a rigidly conventional pattern, as of behavior, habits, or beliefs.

Rigid, unimaginative convention.

The formation of bone; the act or process of changing or of being changed into bone, or into a bony substance; the change so effected: as, the ossification of cartilage. See osteogenesis.

That which is ossified, or the result of ossification; bone in general.

The state or quality of being ossified.