Origin: Latin suffix -tion
Calcification has 4 different meanings across 1 category:
a process that impregnates something with calcium (or calcium salts)
tissue hardened by deposition of lime salts
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.