Associations to the word «Calcification»

Wiktionary

CALCIFICATION, noun. 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.

Dictionary definition

CALCIFICATION, noun. A process that impregnates something with calcium (or calcium salts).
CALCIFICATION, noun. Tissue hardened by deposition of lime salts.
CALCIFICATION, noun. An inflexible and unchanging state; "the calcification of negotiations".

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats