calcification
Americannoun
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calcifications
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a changing into lime.
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Physiology. the deposition of lime or insoluble salts of calcium and magnesium, as in a tissue.
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Anatomy, Geology. a calcified formation.
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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.
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a hardening or solidifying; rigidity.
As the conflict developed, there was an increasing calcification of attitudes on both sides.
noun
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the process of calcifying or becoming calcified
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pathol a tissue hardened by deposition of lime salts
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any calcified object or formation
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Medicine
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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.
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A structure that has undergone calcification.
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Geology
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The replacement of organic material, especially original hard material such as bone, with calcium carbonate during the process of fossilization.
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The accumulation of calcium in certain soils, especially soils of cool temperate regions where leaching takes place very slowly.
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As a result, Chicago suffers from a “sclerotic calcification of unneeded labor costs,” he said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026
Additional experiments showed that genetically deleting IL-1b significantly reduced valve calcification and disease symptoms, even when P. gingivalis was present.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 13, 2026
Previous studies have shown that the compound can reduce the formation of atherosclerosis plaques and prevent vascular calcification in nonhuman primates, suggesting it could also become a treatment for cardiovascular disease.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 11, 2026
She stated the actual cause of death was narrowing and "calcification of his coronary arteries due to old age".
From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2025
When these tubercles are sufficiently numerous to become confluent, large masses may be formed, which undergo the same retrogressive changes of caseation and calcification.
From Special Report on Diseases of Cattle by United States. Bureau of Animal Industry
“One of the reasons why clinicians use this is because there is data that shows when there are coronary calcifications patients are more likely to take medications and to adopt other preventive therapies,” he says.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 30, 2026
“No significant masses, calcifications or other findings are seen in either breast.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 17, 2026
The commercially available AI system used for screening was trained by deep learning models to highlight and rate suspicious lesions and calcifications within mammograms.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 4, 2024
Cespedes will undergo a pair of surgeries to remove calcifications in both of his heels, an ailment that has bothered him dating back to his teenage years.
From Washington Times ● Jul. 26, 2018
If Cespedes’s assertion on Friday is true — that painful calcifications in his heels cause his chronic leg problems, and only surgery can fix it — he should not be playing.
From New York Times ● Jul. 21, 2018
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