Hypertext Webster Gateway: "calcification"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Calcification \Cal`ci*fi*ca"tion\
(k[a^]l`s[i^]*f[i^]*k[=a]"sh[u^]n), n. (Physiol.)
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.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
calcification
n 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"
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