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Definition of Calcifies
1. calcify [v] - See also: calcify
Lexicographical Neighbors of Calcifies
Literary usage of Calcifies
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Anatomy, Descriptive and Applied by Henry Gray (1913)
"This droplet then becomes fibrous and calcifies and forms the first layer of ...
now appears and calcifies, and so on; successive droplets of keratin-like ..."
2. A Treatise on Comparative Embryology by Francis Maitland Balfour (1885)
"A papilla of the dermis makes its appearance, the outer layer of which gradually
calcifies to form the dentine and osseous tissue. ..."
3. A Manual of Histology by Salomon Stricker (1872)
"... mouth. most beautiful manner, in preparations which have been teased out, how
the »hole déduit calcifies and acquires the character of osseous tissue. ..."
4. American Journal of Dental Science by American Society of Dental Surgeons (1875)
"If he asserts that enamel calcifies toward the interior, he is at fault; for it
calcifies at the periphery. The report said the enamel was H dermal ..."
5. Anatomy of the Human Body by Henry Gray, Warren Harmon Lewis (1918)
"This droplet then becomes fibrous and calcifies and forms the first layer of the
enamel; a second droplet now appears and calcifies ..."
6. The Dental Student's Note Book by Oakley Coles (1880)
"CEMENT calcifies from within outwards. Direction of Calcification in the Tissues.
ENAMEL calcifies from within outwards. Columnar cells from without inwards ..."
7. Bulletin of the Bureau of Fisheries by United States Bureau of Fisheries, Bureau of Fisheries, United States (1916)
"According to him, the mode of growth is that the inferior lamina is fastened by
a conjunctive substance which eventually calcifies, after which ..."
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