ossified

adjective ossified

• bony — Someone who has a bony face or bony hands, for example, has a very thin face or very thin hands, with very little flesh covering their bones.
• fossilised — Non-Oxford British standard spelling of fossilized.
• fossilized — Geology. to convert into a fossil; replace organic with mineral substances in the remains of an organism.
• hardened — made or become hard or harder.
• petrified — to convert into stone or a stony substance.