Associations to the word «calcification»

Wiktionary

CALCIFICATION, noun. 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.

Dictionary definition

CALCIFICATION, noun. A process that impregnates something with calcium (or calcium salts).
CALCIFICATION, noun. Tissue hardened by deposition of lime salts.
CALCIFICATION, noun. An inflexible and unchanging state; "the calcification of negotiations".

Wise words

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Leo Tolstoy