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Calcification

Calcification Meaning & Definition
Calcification Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Calcification?

[n] a process that impregnates something with calcium (or calcium salts)
[n] an inflexible and unchanging state; "the calcification of negotiations"
[n] tissue hardened by deposition of lime salts

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See Also | chemical action | chemical change | chemical process | hardening | inaction | inactiveness | inactivity | ossification

Calcification In Webster's Dictionary

\Cal`ci*fi*ca"tion\ (k[a^]l`s[i^]*f[i^]*k[=a]"sh[u^]n), n. (Physiol.) The process of change into a stony or calcareous substance by the deposition of lime salt; -- normally, as in the formation of bone and of teeth; abnormally, as in calcareous degeneration of tissue.

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