Definition of Calcified

1. a. Consisting of, or containing, calcareous matter or lime salts; calcareous.

Definition of Calcified

1. Adjective. Hardened from the deposit of calcium salts. ¹

2. Adjective. That which is to become unchanging or inflexible. ¹

3. Verb. (past of calcify) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Calcified

1. calcify [v] - See also: calcify

Lexicographical Neighbors of Calcified

calcicoles
calcicolous
calcicosis
calcidiol
calcifediol
calciferol
calciferols
calciferous
calcific
calcific bursitis
calcific pancreatitis
calcification
calcification lines of Retzius
calcifications
calcified (current term)
calcified cartilage
calcified liver metastases
calcifier
calcifiers
calcifies
calciform
calcifugal
calcifuge
calcifuges
calcifugous
calcify
calcifying
calcifying and keratinizing odontogenic cyst
calcifying epithelial odontogenic tumour

Literary usage of Calcified

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Transactions by Southern California Dental Association (1916)
"calcified HEMATOMA FREDERICK C. KIDNER, MD Fellow of the American College of Surgeons DETROIT Interest in the occasional development of bone masses in and ..."

2. Geological Biology: An Introduction to the Geological History of Organisms by Henry Shaler Williams (1895)
"calcified Loops which are ... in addition to the crura, calcified bands of a peculiar form looped back upon themselves, which are technically called loops. ..."

3. Handbook of Meat Inspection by Robert von Ostertag (1904)
"Moreover, the calcified content is usually separable from the membrane. Furthermore, in the calcified cysticerci of larger size, the characteristic hooks ..."

4. Monthly Journal of Medical Science (1854)
"of a line in thickness ; the calcified cartilage b immediately beneath it was very dense, while at e the texture was looser, but even there, ..."

5. Library of Natural History by Richard Lydekker (1901)
"The teeth of the saw are firmly implanted in distinct sockets of calcified cartilage, while those in the jaws are minute and blunt. ..."

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