Cartilages ossified with age.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

Analogous to the bony tissues are the so-called ossified (really, calcified) arteries.    From Wordnik.com.  [McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 6, May, 1896] Reference

“The existing seem has been kind of ossified,” he said.    From Wordnik.com.  [The End of eBay’s Egalitarianism - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com] Reference

Is that something you really want to see, that kind of ossified thinking in a bureaucratic organization like Homeland Security?.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jul 21, 2005] Reference

And the worst of it was, I couldn't tell him just the particular kind of ossified old pinhead I thought he was.    From Wordnik.com.  [The House of Torchy] Reference

The bones of dragons remained, ossified stone ribs.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Burning City]

He bumped into a few ossified regulars, who did nothing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cradle and All]

When they are limy throughout they are said to be ossified.    From Wordnik.com.  [Maintaining Health Formerly Health and Efficiency] Reference

He had no ossified formation to masticate his daily rations.    From Wordnik.com.  ["Co. Aytch" Maury Grays, First Tennessee Regiment or, A Side Show of the Big Show] Reference

Is the ossified New York public-school system ready for that?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gates To New York High Schools: Smaller Is Better] Reference

The desire for security ossified into conformity and conservatism.    From Wordnik.com.  [1968]

A lot of a like minded people who don't want to be perceived as ossified.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jun 23, 2004] Reference

Especially will this be so if the lateral cartilages have become ossified.    From Wordnik.com.  [Diseases of the Horse's Foot] Reference

"He has positioned himself as an alternative to an ossified political system.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Austria's Power Player] Reference

The scar tissue is fully ossified now, and I can drag a blade over it with abandon.    From Wordnik.com.  [Disbelief] Reference

"Leadership has become ossified and hopelessly out of touch," lamented one such member.    From Wordnik.com.  [Troubled Waters] Reference

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The ossified intelligence bureaucracy must now be thoroughly restructured.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Sep 19, 2002] Reference

It would be retrogression to attach oneself today to the ossified formulas of the Enlightenment.    From Wordnik.com.  [Harvard University Commencement Address (A World Split Apart)] Reference

The cartilages of ribs were ossified, and both lungs were adhering strongly to the pleura costalis.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Investigation into the Nature of Black Phthisis or Ulceration Induced by Carbonaceous Accumulation in the Lungs of Coal Miners] Reference

While he is certainly an outsider, he's hardly a squeaky-clean-reformist challenger to ossified power.    From Wordnik.com.  [Towns' Friends Gather to Hold Back the Tide] Reference

The bones are completely ossified early, which is the cause of their small stature and their stupidity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Maintaining Health Formerly Health and Efficiency] Reference

Africans in a democratic South Africa or to forever remain ossified in the past whilst proclaiming change.    From Wordnik.com.  [RESIGNATIONS FROM NATIONAL PARTY NOT SURPRISING] Reference

He was very old, and his thoughts were slow and somewhat ossified, like his grumps, but in time they got there.    From Wordnik.com.  [Up In A Heaval]

Now those bones were scattered and broken, the ossified wainscoting rendered gap-toothed by missing and tumbled bones.    From Wordnik.com.  [Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town] Reference

"The AARP is an ossified bureaucracy that isn't always responsive to its membership," said a top White House official.    From Wordnik.com.  [SENIORS DRAW FIRE] Reference

The ossified condition of the thyroid and cricoid parts of the laryngeal apparatus affords a protection to the vessels.    From Wordnik.com.  [Surgical Anatomy] Reference

I think I know some hardened hearts which have ossified around the soft emotions which in earlier years played therein.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 105, July 1866] Reference

The figures are a game changer, particularly for Germany; the world may need to rethink the caricature of ossified Europe.    From Wordnik.com.  [What’s Not to Love?] Reference

It is again to development that we must turn to discover the true relationship of the cartilaginous to the ossified skull.    From Wordnik.com.  [Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology] Reference

My heart is in the right place, and my thinking hasn't been ossified by a life of marching in lock step to a party ideology.    From Wordnik.com.  [Political Lives: The Outsiders Are In] Reference

Fortunately, baby's bones are only partially ossified, else he would sustain many fractures in the frequent falls and bumps.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mother and Her Child] Reference

You know, when you look inside their bodies, someone who's younger than 16, their bones are not yet fully ossified, hardened.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Aug 14, 2008] Reference

In the body's place, the same policy process that has kept the budget ossified for most of the last several decades will remain.    From Wordnik.com.  [Japan's Budget Looks Busted From Start] Reference

If the Democrats were in a real ossified position the way they were in 1992, Gore might be able to break free and make this point.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Sep 2, 2001] Reference

For many Christians, Buttiglione included, European secularism has ossified into an ideology -- one that increasingly excludes them.    From Wordnik.com.  [FIGHTING FOR GOD] Reference

Bony Perkins rubbed his ossified eyes with his ossified knuckles and observed that it looked as if somebody was going to get fooled.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tin-Types Taken in the Streets of New York A Series of Stories and Sketches Portraying Many Singular Phases of Metropolitan Life] Reference

Sarkozy knows that only a break with ossified systems and beliefs, his so-called rupture, can bring about real change, and this needs time.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mail Call: Italy’s Problems] Reference