- a calcifying; specif., the deposition of calcium salts in bodily tissues
- a calcified substance or structure
calcification
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calcification
noun
- a. Impregnation with calcium or calcium salts, as with calcium carbonate.b. Hardening, as of tissue, by such impregnation.
- A calcified substance or part.
- An inflexible, unchanging state: calcification of negotiations.
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- Medicine
- The accumulation of calcium or calcium salts in a body tissue. Calcification normally occurs in the formation of bone, but can be deposited abnormally, as in the lungs.
- A structure that has undergone calcification.
- Geology
- The replacement of organic material, especially original hard material such as bone, with calcium carbonate during the process of fossilization.
- The accumulation of calcium in certain soils, especially soils of cool temperate regions where leaching takes place very slowly.
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Noun
(countable and uncountable, plural calcifications)
- 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.
Origin
From calcify + -ation.
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calcification - Medical Definition
n.
- Impregnation with calcium or calcium salts, as with calcium carbonate.
- Hardening, as of tissue, by such impregnation.
- A calcified substance or part.
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