calcification Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a process that impregnates something with calcium (or calcium salts)
  2. noun tissue hardened by deposition of lime salts
  3. noun an inflexible and unchanging state
    • the calcification of negotiations

WordNet


Cal`ci*fi*ca"tion noun
Definitions
  1. (Physiol.) The process of chenge into a stony or calcareous substance by the deposition of lime salt; -- normally, as in the formation of bone and teeth; abnormally, as in calcareous degeneration of tissue.

Webster 1913