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calcify::verb | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | change |
| Derivation | calcification |
Old folks can calcify.
calcify::verb | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | turn, change state |
| Derivation | calcium, calcification |
Examples of calcify
calcify
These animals calcify to strengthen their shells and thereby their suit of armour.
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They can last for a decade or more, but may calcify and wear out eventually.
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Because aging voices tend to calcify, singers usually don't get better as they get older.
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Their intervertebral disc material can calcify and become more brittle.
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The thing that she has allowed to kind of calcify in her, this belief that she's a broken person.
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Once obtained, you cannot let Board chemistry calcify.
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Before the beginning of a species'mating season, the antlers calcify under the velvet and become hard bone.
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They can cavitate, calcify, or develop air-fluid levels.
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Doctors found that the bone in her left elbow had been broken and the muscle and tendons had begun to calcify.
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- Become impregnated with calcium salts
- Become inflexible and unchanging; "Old folks can calcify"
- Turn into lime; become calcified; "The rock calcified over the centuries"
- (calcification) tissue hardened by deposition of lime salts
- (calcification) an inflexible and unchanging state; "the calcification of negotiations"
- (Calcification) the process by which corals extract calcium from seawater and create calcium carbonate.
- (calcification) A soil process where the surface soil is combined with calcium by the decomposition of plants, especially if a calcareous layer is formed. See also: podzolization.
- (Calcification) A process that occurs when tissue or noncellular material in the body becomes hardened by deposits of calcium salts. [See: Fluoride & Osteoarthritis | Fluorosis & Spondylosis/Spondylitis | Fluorosis & DISH ]
- (Calcification) The body's attempt to render invading bacteria harmless by coating them with calcium. This can result in prostate stones which may cause problems of their own. Small stones may migrate out of the prostate into the urethra causing "sand" in the urine.
