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Calcification  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.






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"Calcification" Quotes from Famous Books



... system and the bones are commonly also involved, so that rickety changes are often found in these infantile and watery children. In early childhood the processes of calcification and decalcification proceed side by side and with great rapidity, and in health there is always a balance on the side of the constructive process. In the children whom we are now considering, saturated as they are, from time to time, with the toxins resulting ...
— The Nervous Child • Hector Charles Cameron



Words linked to "Calcification" :   chemical change, chemical process, inactivity, calcify, chemical action, inaction, inactiveness, hardening



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