CALCIFY (calcified)

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Irregular inflected form: calcified   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does calcify mean? 

• CALCIFY (verb)
  The verb CALCIFY has 4 senses:

1. become impregnated with calcium salts

2. become inflexible and unchanging

3. turn into lime; become calcified

4. convert into lime

  Familiarity information: CALCIFY used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CALCIFY (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they calcify    ... he / she / it calcifies   
Past simple: calcified   
Past participle: calcified   
-ing form: calcifying   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Become impregnated with calcium salts

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "calcify" is one way to...):

harden; indurate (become hard or harder)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Antonym:

decalcify (remove calcium or lime from)

Derivation:

calcification (a process that impregnates something with calcium (or calcium salts))

calcification (tissue hardened by deposition of lime salts)

calcium (a white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light; the fifth most abundant element in the earth's crust; an important component of most plants and animals)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Become inflexible and unchanging

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Context example:

Old folks can calcify

Hypernyms (to "calcify" is one way to...):

change (undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Derivation:

calcification (an inflexible and unchanging state)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Turn into lime; become calcified

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Context example:

The rock calcified over the centuries

Hypernyms (to "calcify" is one way to...):

change state; turn (undergo a transformation or a change of position or action)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Derivation:

calcification (tissue hardened by deposition of lime salts)

calcium (a white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light; the fifth most abundant element in the earth's crust; an important component of most plants and animals)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Convert into lime

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Context example:

the salts calcified the rock

Hypernyms (to "calcify" is one way to...):

alter; change; modify (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s something

Derivation:

calcium (a white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light; the fifth most abundant element in the earth's crust; an important component of most plants and animals)

 Context examples 

It is characterized by the presence of rounded islands of malignant epithelial cells in a fibrous stroma and the benign features of calcifying cystic odontogenic tumor.

(Ghost Cell Odontogenic Carcinoma, NCI Thesaurus)

Surgery performed for the purpose of repairing a degenerated, calcified, malformed, dysfunctional, etc. heart valve.

(Heart Valve Repair, NCI Thesaurus)

Densely calcified fluid, most often found radiographically in association with an obstruction.

(Milk of Calcium, NCI Thesaurus)

A tumor composed of cells resembling those of the hair matrix, which undergo 'mummification' and may calcify.

(Pilomatricoma, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

These calcifying organisms will struggle to build and maintain their shells as acidification proceeds.

(Marine organisms in Southern Ocean will face shallower zone for life, National Science Foundation)

A hard, thin, translucent layer of calcified substance that envelops and protects the dentin of the crown of the tooth.

(Enamel, NCI Thesaurus)

Pulmonary amyloidomas are rare and are often found incidentally as solitary or multiple calcified nodules and masses on chest radiographs in asymptomatic elderly patients.

(Amyloidoma, NCI Thesaurus)

It is characterized by the presence of a fibrous stroma, epithelial cells with abundant eosinophilic cytoplasm, and amyloid material which is often calcified.

(Calcifying Epithelial Odontogenic Tumor, NCI Thesaurus)

Representative examples include adenomatoid odontogenic tumor, calcifying cystic odontogenic tumor, and squamous odontogenic tumor.

(Benign Odontogenic Neoplasm, NCI Thesaurus)

A procedure performed to replace a narrowed and calcified aortic valve in patients unable to withstand open chest surgery.

(Percutaneous Aortic Valve Replacement, NCI Thesaurus)