calcification

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

English calcify

Proto-Indo-European *-tis

Proto-Indo-European *-Hō

Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō

Proto-Italic *-tiō

Latin -tiō

Latin -ātiōlbor.

Old French -ationbor.

Middle English -acioun

English -ation

English calcification

From calcify + -ation.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌkælsɪfɪˈkeɪʃən/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

calcification (countable and uncountable, plural calcifications)

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

     An examination of the tooth shows a beautiful specimen of calcification of the dental pulp.

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

     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.

Derived terms

• anticalcification
• biocalcification
• decalcification
• dystrophic calcification
• hypercalcification
• hypocalcification
• macrocalcification
• microcalcification
• mictocalcification
• osteocalcification
• overcalcification
• procalcification
• recalcification
• spondyloepimetaphyseal dysplasia-short limb-abnormal calcification syndrome

Translations

the process of change into a stony or calcareous substance

• Arabic: تَكَلُّس (takallus)
• Bulgarian: калциране (kalcirane), втвърдяване (bg) (vtvărdjavane)
• Catalan: calcificació f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 鈣化 / 钙化 (zh) (gàihuà)

• Czech: zvápenatění n, kalcifikace (cs) f
• Finnish: kalkkeutuminen (fi)
• Galician: calcificación (gl) f
• Greek: αποτιτάνωση (el) f (apotitánosi)
• Indonesian: kalsifikasi (id)
• Italian: calcificazione f
• Swedish: förkalkning c
• Turkish: kalsifikasyon

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kal.si.fi.ka.sjɔ̃/

• Audio (France (Lyon)):

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Noun

calcification m (plural calcifications)

1. calcification

Further reading

• “calcification”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012