ossify

verb

1. 僵化；使固定不变
   to become or make sth fixed and unable to change
   1. an ossified political system
      僵化的政治制度
2. 使骨化；骨质化
   to become or make sth hard like bone

1. V-ERG （使）僵化；（使）一成不变；（使）墨守成规
   If an idea, system, or organization ossifies or if something ossifies it, it becomes fixed and difficult to change.
   1. It reckons that rationing would ossify the farm industry...
      人们认为实行配给制会使农业失去活力。
   2. British society tended to ossify and close ranks as the 1930s drew to their close.
      英国社会在20世纪30年代末期趋于保守和自闭。
   3. ...an ossified institution.
      僵化的机构

1. It reckons that rationing would ossify the farm industry
   人们认为实行配给制会使农业失去活力。
2. British society tended to ossify and close ranks as the 1930s drew to their close.
   英国社会在20世纪30年代末期趋于保守和自闭。
3. Raymond: That it is possible for open source cultures in some respects to ossify enough that good work is locked out.
   Raymond：就是开放源码文化在某些方面可能会非常保守，会把好的作品关在门外。
4. But the risk that the recent homeward flow of bank assets will ossify into a less efficient, less flexible cross-border banking system is real and growing.
   然而，最近银行资产向母国回流的趋势正在朝低效、僵化的跨国银行系统越滑越深，这一风险是实实在在的，而且在不断加大。
5. Begin with and ossify over time, beginning from the hoof and working up the leg.
   生长面最初是软的，随着时间发展才慢慢变硬，从蹄子开始一直到腿。
6. The tablecloth trails on the floor. The perpendicular plate grows faster than vomer along the superior-inferior axis and does not ossify until birth.
   台布一直垂到地板上。②筛骨垂直板的上下径生长大于犁骨，且骨化时间晚，至出生时仍未骨化；
7. Without this intermediation, money would not change hands, economic growth would stall and society would ossify, as inheritance replaced entrepreneurship as the principal means of wealth transfer.
   没有这种媒介，货币就无法交换，经济增长就会停滞，社会就会僵化，因为继承会取代创业，成为财富转移的主要手段。
8. It is easy for the mind to ossify.
   脑筋是易于僵化的。
9. The development of modern TCM acute disease is relatively slow, looking for the reasons, which lie in two respects: one of them is in a close and ossify model, and on the way from confirm to confirm;
   近代中医急症学发展相对迟缓，究其原因，一是自身处于封闭僵化的模式中，走肯定到肯定的发展道路；
10. Achild's cartilage starts to ossify at a very young age.
    孩子的软骨在他幼年时就开始硬化了。
11. All fixed, fast-frozen relations, with their train of ancient and venerable prejudices and opinions, are swept away, all new-formed ones become antiquated before they can ossify.
    所有那些固定的古老的关系，以及与之相适应的素被尊崇的观念或偏见统统被一扫而光；
12. Demineralized bone powder mixed with bone-marrow aspirate was introduced into the cyst to halt the expansion phase and to allow the cyst to ossify.
    将去矿骨粉末及骨髓吸出物混合物注入囊肿内，阻止囊肿的扩大并促进骨化。
13. Takes an exam the student thinking mode which the education creates to ossify, student heavy knowledge grasping, light thinking mode training.
    应试教育造成的学生思维方式僵化，学生重知识的掌握，轻思维方式的训练。
14. But change most early is every ( long bone) interosseous membrane ossify and bony trabecula, bone density and pathological changes degree serious.
    各骨（长骨）骨间膜骨化及骨小梁、骨密度改变发生早、且病变程度重。
15. The x& ray appearances were hyperostosis of the anterior and posterior margins of vertebral body, ossification of the anterior and posterior longitudinal ligaments, ossification of the lateral ligaments and formation of the ossify bridge.
    X线表现是脊椎椎体骨质增生，前、后纵韧带及侧韧带骨化和骨桥形成；
16. Results: There are 13 cases of osteosclerosis in small joint of spine, and 7 cases of subflavous ligament thicken and/ or ossify, all of this display long-Tl and short-T2 imaging in MRI.
    结果：脊椎小关节骨质增生13例，黄韧带肥厚和（或）骨化7例，在MR图像上呈长T1短T2信号。
17. Conclusion: The causes of abnormal long-T1 and short-T2 imaging in MRI, we think that the osteosclerosis in small joint of spine is a common cause except the subflavous ligament thicken and/ or ossify.
    结论：MR图像上脊髓侧后缘异常长T1短T2信号，除为黄韧带肥厚和（或）骨化外，脊椎小关节骨质增生也是一种常见病因。
18. Study on Ossify in Vivo of Human BMSc Induced by PRP and Mixing Culture of Human BMSc with Discrepant Zygosity
    PRP诱导人BMSc体内成骨及免疫配型不相合人BMSc混合培养实验研究
19. Results The iliac crest cartilage and costal cartilage grafted on maxilla surface began to ossify from the 4th week, and they have become mature osseous tissues in the 12th week. However, there was no histological change found in alae nasi soft tissue.
    结果移植于骨表面的髂嵴软骨和肋软骨4周始即出现骨化，至12周时形成成熟的骨组织，而移植于鼻翼软组织内的软骨至24周仍未见明显吸收、钙化。
20. The margin of all lesions were clear and complete or incomplete ossify strip were shown on 3 cases. No soft tissue or periosteal reaction could be found in all cases.
    所有病灶边界均清楚，其中3例病变周围可见完整或不完整硬化带，全部患者未见明显软组织肿块及骨膜反应。
21. If the inventory excessive, it will make the company pay more excessive fees such as warehousing expense and insurance, and cause the capital to ossify and the fund chain tight.
    库存过高，一方面会让企业产生额外的库存管理成本，例如仓储费、保险费等；另一方面还会造成资本僵化，资金链紧张。

verb

1. become bony
   1. The tissue ossified

2. cause to become hard and bony
   1. The disease ossified the tissue

3. make rigid and set into a conventional pattern
   1. rigidify the training schedule
   2. ossified teaching methods
   3. slogans petrify our thinking

   Synonym:    rigidifypetrify