calcification — English Dictionary

Noun

1. 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 the calcareous degeneration of tissue.

   Usage

   • Countable
   • Uncountable

   Examples

   An examination of the tooth shows a beautiful specimen of calcification of the dental pulp.

   More examples (1)

   It was all coming at her now: the fatigue and the fever; pieces of her lung splintering and mixing with her throwup; the calcifications on her bones, where the disease had already spread.

Noun

1. a process that impregnates something with calcium (or calcium salts)

   Broader terms

   chemical processchemical changechemical action

2. tissue hardened by deposition of lime salts

   Broader terms

   hardening

3. an inflexible and unchanging state

   Broader terms

   inactioninactivityinactiveness

   Examples

   the calcification of negotiations