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calcification - Wiktionary, the free dictionary

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Noun

calcification (countable and uncountable, plural calcifications)

  • 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 the calcareous degeneration of tissue.
    • ✤ An examination of the tooth shows a beautiful specimen of calcification of the dental pulp.1
    • ✤ It was all coming at her now: the fatigue and the fever; pieces of her lung splintering and mixing with her throwup; the calcifications on her bones, where the disease had already spread.2

Etymology

From calcify + -ation.

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ˌkælsɪfɪˈkeɪʃən/
  • Audio (Southern England): 🔊
  • Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Printed 2026-07-08.

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Footnotes

  1. 1871, The Dental Cosmos, volume 13, page 84: ↩

  2. 2012, Marcus Samuelsson, “One: My African Mother”, in Yes, Chef, Random House, →ISBN, page 6: ↩

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