Calcification

[kælsәfi'keiʃәn]

Definition

(noun.) a process that impregnates something with calcium (or calcium salts).

(noun.) an inflexible and unchanging state; 'the calcification of negotiations'.

(noun.) tissue hardened by deposition of lime salts.

Checker: Neil--From WordNet

Definition

(n.) 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.

Checker: Sigmund