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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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- 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.
- n. a process that impregnates something with calcium (or calcium salts)
- n. tissue hardened by deposition of lime salts
- n. an inflexible and unchanging state
- 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.
- The process of chenge into a stony or calcareous substance bythe deposition of lime salt; -- normally, as in the formation of boneand teeth; abnormally, as in calcareous degeneration of tissue.
- n:100 n. a process that impregnates something with calcium (or calcium salts) n. tissue hardened by deposition of lime salts n. an inflexible and unchanging state