Sentences with phrase «called ossification»

The hardening process of the bones, called ossification, continues until puberty.

This hardening process is called ossification and usually begins in the legs and inner ear.

Not exact matches

But premature complete ossification of the sutures is called craniosynostosis.

There are more common instances of bone formation called heterotopic ossification.

More precisely the different joint conditions grouped under the name of elbow dysplasia include: a ununited anconeal process (failure of union between the anconeal process and the remainder of the ulna beyond 20 weeks of age), the so - called osteochondrosis dissecans of the humeral condyle (failure of ossification of the articular cartilage covering the humeral condyle, resulting in an abnormal thickening of the articular cartilage and separation between this region and the underlying bone), and finally the fragmentation of the coronoid process (in which the ulnar coronoid process have multiple fragments or most often a single fragment).

During birth and growth, this matrix is replaced at the epiphyses and metaphyses of long bones in a process called endochondral ossification.

The chondrodysplasia in this breed has at times been mistaken for the Vitamin D deficiency called rickets, but only the tubular bones are affected, other than retarded ossification of the lateral tarsal (cuboid) bone.