calcify
verbUS /ˈkælsɪfaɪ/
Etymology From French calcifier, or from English calcium + -ify.
1
To make or become hard and stony by impregnating with calcium salts.
- calcify tissue
- calcify rapidly
2 more examples
- calcify with age
- Over time, the arteries began to calcify.
2
Broadly, Figuratively To make or become rigid or inflexible; to ossify.
- Derived terms
- anticalcifying, biocalcify, calcifiable, calcific, calcification, calcifier, decalcification, decalcify, noncalcifying, procalcifying, recalcification, recalcify