Calcification

What do we mean by calcification?

Impregnation with calcium or calcium salts, as with calcium carbonate. noun

Hardening, as of tissue, by such impregnation. noun

A calcified substance or part. noun

An inflexible, unchanging state. noun

A changing into lime; the process of changing or being changed into a stony substance by the deposition of salts of lime, as in the formation of petrifactions. noun

In zoology and anatomy, the deposition of salts of lime in any tissue, as in membrane or cartilage in the formation of bone. noun

A calcific formation or structure. 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. 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. noun

An inflexible and unchanging state noun

Tissue hardened by deposition of lime salts noun

A process that impregnates something with calcium (or calcium salts) 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.

A change or hardening of tissue through the impregnation of calcium. The process by which specific corals grow. Urban Dictionary

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- calcificate, calcify, calcification, calcium. - to surround a foreign object, that can potentially harm the human body, with calcium. - to resemble the process of calcification. - examples of items the body might calcificate: tumors, still born babies, parasitic twins, items lost during surgery (i.e. gauze, scalpel). Urban Dictionary

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Words that are spelled similarly to calcification:
calcification, falsification, pacification, decalcification, caprification, palification, calorification, carnification, dulcification, calcifications, coalification, albification, salification, recalcification.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word calcification:
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Adjectives that are often used to describe calcification:
metastatic, dystrophic, extensive, coronary, soft, provisional, arterial, intracranial, mitral, vascular, pancreatic, aortic, ectopic, cerebral, focal, dense, renal, medial, annular, diffuse, basal, heavy, pericardial, central, pleural, abnormal, normal, tissue, secondary, pulmonary, irregular, pathological, peripheral, amorphous, severe, curvilinear, idiopathic, subcutaneous, subsequent, massive, complete, progressive, punctate, adrenal, linear, stippled, bilateral, defective, partial, characteristic, pathologic, suprasellar, like, initial, widespread, periarticular, ligamentous, intracerebral, pineal, fine, deficient, extraskeletal, typical, degenerative, periventricular, excessive, cardiac, cortical, incomplete, heterotopic, myocardial, nodular, visible, spotty, articular, intimal, faint, patchy, corneal, coarse, hepatic, abdominal, granular, biological, symmetrical, familial, premature, placental, intervertebral, inadequate, rim, periosteal.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective calcification:
completed, begins, hypothesis, resistance, salts.

Words that sound like calcification:
calcification, falsification, gasification, classification, decalcification, qualification, calefaction, emulsification, clarification, pacification, classifications, codification, calcination.