Definition of "ossific" [os•sif•ic]

• Capable of producing bone; having the power to change cartilage or other tissue into bone. (adjective)

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• "Such is not a counsel of ossific reaction, quite the contrary."
• "Under the slightest irritation or stimulation, however, their bone-forming functions are stirred into abnormal activity, thus explaining how easy it is (especially with bones so open to receive slight injuries as are those of the foot) to get ossific deposits, the starting-point of which we are quite unable to account for."
• "The fontanelles are usually closed by the growth and extension of the bones which surround them, but sometimes they are the sites of separate ossific centers which develop into sutural bones."