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Definitions for: Calcification [n] a process that impregnates something with calcium (or calcium salts)
[n] an inflexible and unchanging state; "the calcification of negotiations"
[n] tissue hardened by deposition of lime salts
Webster (1913) Definition: Cal`ci*fi*ca"tion
(k[a^]l`s[i^]*f[i^]*k[=a]"sh[u^]n), n. (Physiol.)
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.
See Also: chemical action, chemical change, chemical process, hardening, inaction, inactiveness, inactivity, ossification
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