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Calcification Common

Origin: Latin suffix -tion

Calcification has 4 different meanings across 1 category:

Noun

Definitions
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

"the calcification of negotiations"

4

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.

Related Terms
Broader Terms (hypernyms)
chemical process hardening inaction
Narrower Terms (hyponyms)
ossification
Rhyming Words
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