Set in a rigidly conventional pattern of behavior, habits, or beliefs
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
fossilized
fossilised
Ossified Sentence Examples
The ribs are eighteen or nineteen in number on each side, flattened, and united to the sternum by short, stout, tolerably well ossified sternal ribs.
The scapula is long and slender, the supra-scapular border being rounded, and slowly and imperfectly ossified.
No batrachian is known to possess an ossified azygous supraoccipital.
The vomer is broad, abruptly truncated in front, and deeply cleft behind, so as to embrace the rostrum of the sphenoid; the palatals have produced postero-external angles; the maxillo-palatals are slender at their origin, and extend obliquely inwards and forwards over the palatals, ending beneath the vomer in expanded extremities, not united either with one another or with the vomer, nor does the latter unite with the nasal septum, though that is frequently ossified.
Later those pads fuse with the anterior end of the centrum of the vertebra to which they belong; where the vertebral column is rendered inflexible, the disks are ossified with the centra and all trace of them is lost.