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set in a rigidly conventional pattern of behavior, habits, or beliefs

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It is derived from ceretohyal segment Ossified epihyal components continuous with stylohyal components gives the appearance of abnormally long styloid process.
Mr Trickett told the paper: "We're living in a 24-7 society, yet our Parliament seems so ossified that it goes into recess for 11 weeks and there seems no way for backbenchers to bring back MPs".
In our case, we hypothesize that the inner cortical portion of the pterygoid process was less ossified than normal.
Alex Kerr, a long-time resident of Japan and author of the acclaimed Lost Japan (1996) believes that nation suffers from a severe case of "dogs and demons." Thanks to ossified and inefficient financial and political institutions, Japan has created all manner of monstrous projects and fiscal outcomes while failing to create the conditions necessary for economic growth.
(This season, Jerry Herman's 1974 Mack and Mabel, about silent-film maestro Mack Sennett and his star, Mabel Normand, gets a second chance to be a hit.) Revivals also allow artists to reconsider classics that may have become ossified in our minds, as Sam Mendes did in 1998, when he revivified Cabaret.
Discitis, or the development of cysts or lesions that weaken the spine as it becomes more rigid, often are the result.[1,4] The term "bamboo spine" is an accurate visual description of how the spine looks after all its vertebrae have been tapered off and surrounded by a column of ossified connective tissue.[1,2,4]
Optimism is possible because Howard shares the neoliberal conviction that humane and activist policies can be separated from ossified bureaucratic techniques.
It spoke of a church not sterile, and ossified but one that was something of a community; a community where free and full discussion was welcomed in the conviction that the Holy Spirit blows where it will and that any insight might be informed by that blessed Spirit.
Or we romanticized Russia's prerevolution past in utterly ossified language.
Sometimes this ligament is ossified. [2] There are also so many variations seen in superior transverse scapular ligament like multiple bands and calcification, [3] bifurcation, [4] trifurcation, [5] and hypertrophy.
This middle ear connection, also known as the ossified Meckel's cartilage, resembles the embryonic condition of living mammals and the primitive middle ear of pre-mammalian ancestors.
Mr Button recoils in horror at the baby swaddled in a blanket: the mewling infant looks like an old man, with ossified bones and wrinkled skin, and will apparently die within hours.
The exciting prospect of Wales being governed not by the ossified hand of Labour but by a coalition of ideas across an alternative political spectrum should not be missed.
"You're always implying a kind of immediate collision, like a hand fingering a human skull or someone reaching for the scalpel in the operating room, but then you're also sort of imaging the, let's say, on-screen time in which that moment can get played over and over and over again, becoming mutated and ossified in the studio."