Definitions for calcification

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calcification cal·ci·fi·ca·tion

Spelling: [kal-suh-fi-key-shuh n]

IPA: /ˌkæl sə fɪˈkeɪ ʃən/

Calcification is a 13 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 22 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 27 points.

You can make 516 anagrams from letters in calcification (aacccfiiilnot).

Definitions for calcification

noun

1. a changing into lime.
2. Physiology. the deposition of lime or insoluble salts of calcium and magnesium, as in a tissue.
3. Anatomy, Geology. a calcified formation.
4. a soil process in which the surface soil is supplied with calcium in such a way that the soil colloids are always close to saturation.
5. a hardening or solidifying; rigidity:

Origin of calcification

First recorded in 1840-50; calcific + -ation

Examples for calcification

As for the calcification of the two valves together, we have seen, under the last variety, how little important a character it is.

Points of calcification occur in the cartilages and tendons in very chronic cases.

Occasionally hyaline degeneration or calcification of the new-formed tissue is seen.

The illustration (Fig. 50) shows the progress of calcification and development of the temporary set of teeth.

When the calcification occurs in plates through the media, the well known pipe stem vessel is produced.

calcification of the teeth begins at the seventeenth week of fœtal life.

calcification of the media is found and is said to be preceded by hypertrophy of the middle coat.

Here the inflammatory process extends to the lateral cartilages, with a strong tendency to calcification.

The hyaline cartilage of the vertebral region forms a vertebral body in which calcification may to some extent take place.

Cases have been reported of calcification of the arteries in infants and children.