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Calcification

noun
1.
A process that impregnates something with calcium (or calcium salts).
2.
Tissue hardened by deposition of lime salts.
3.
An inflexible and unchanging state.





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... infective disease occurring in both cattle and man. In both these groups it presents the same clinical course, being characterized by chronic inflammation with the formation of granulomatous tumours, which tend to undergo suppuration, fibrosis or calcification. It used to be believed that this disease was caused by a single vegetable parasite, the Ray-Fungus, but there is now an overwhelming mass of observations to show that the clinical features may be produced ...
— Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia


Words linked to "Calcification" :   calcify, hardening, inactivity, inactiveness, chemical action, chemical change, ossification, inaction, chemical process


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