See Also: centre of ossification(medicine)
secondary centre of ossification(medicine)
Primary centre of ossification(medicine)
Herbal medicine (botanical medicine, herbology, phytomedicine)(health)
Ossification(medicine)
co-ossification(medicine)
ossification(dictionary)
point of ossification(medicine)
ossification, heterotopic(medicine)
Intramembranous ossification(medicine)

centre of ossification (medicine)


centre of ossification
<orthopaedics, physiology> The site of earliest bone formation via accumulation of osteoblasts within connective tissue (membranous ossification) or of earliest destruction of cartilage prior to onset of ossification (endochondral ossification).

Synonym: punctum ossificationis, ossific centre, point of ossification.