'Calcification' definitions:
Definition of 'calcification'
From: WordNet
noun
A process that impregnates something with calcium (or calcium salts)
noun
Tissue hardened by deposition of lime salts
noun
An inflexible and unchanging state; "the calcification of negotiations"
Definition of 'Calcification'
From: GCIDE
- Calcification \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. [1913 Webster]