calcification
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Noun (3)
- a process that impregnates something with calcium (or calcium salts)Type of chemical process, chemical changeKinds ossification
- tissue hardened by deposition of lime saltsType of hardening
- an inflexible and unchanging state“the calcification of negotiations”Type of inaction, inactivity
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Cal′ci·fi·ca′tion (kăl′sĭ-fĭ-kā′shŭn), noun
Physiology 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.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54