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Grammar : Adj, verb
Spell : kal-suh-fahy
Phonetic Transcription : ˈkæl səˌfaɪ



Definition of calcified

Origin :
  • 1785 (implied in calcified), from French calcifier, from stem of Latin calcem "lime" (see chalk (n.)) + -fy. Related: Calcifying; calcification.
  • As in petrified : adj hardened
  • As in concrete : adj hardened
  • As in petrify : verb make hard
  • As in indurate : verb harden
  • As in harden : verb make or become solid
Example sentences :
  • In Propristis schweinfurthi the tooth-sockets are not yet calcified.
  • Extract from : « A Guide to the Study of Fishes, Volume 1 (of 2) » by David Starr Jordan
  • Now and then these grains are found to be in a calcified condition.
  • Extract from : « Special Report on Diseases of Cattle » by U.S. Department of Agriculture
  • Other specimens show no trace of these calcified projections.
  • Extract from : « A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia (Volume 1 of 2) » by Charles Darwin
  • Calcified arteries are readily identified in skiagrams (Fig. 65).
  • Extract from : « Manual of Surgery » by Alexis Thomson and Alexander Miles
  • A man of forty years may therefore have the calcified, pipe stem arteries of a man of eighty.
  • Extract from : « Arteriosclerosis and Hypertension: » by Louis Marshall Warfield
  • Many puny individuals with stiff, calcified arteries go about with more ease than a robust man with thickened arteries only.
  • Extract from : « Arteriosclerosis and Hypertension: » by Louis Marshall Warfield
  • The sacral diapophyses are expanded and have a border of calcified cartilage laterally.
  • Extract from : « Neotropical Hylid Frogs, Genus Smilisca » by William E. Duellman
  • The scapula is flat and expanded dorsally; the suprascapula is broad, flat, and calcified in large adults.
  • Extract from : « Neotropical Hylid Frogs, Genus Smilisca » by William E. Duellman
  • Cal′cic, containing calcium; Cal′cific, calcifying or calcified.
  • Extract from : « Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) » by Various
  • Their epidermis has secreted a thin covering of chitine, in the tubular worms a leather-like or calcified tube.
  • Extract from : « The Wonders of Life » by Ernst Haeckel

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