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Noun
  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 calcareous degeneration of tissue.
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Mitral valves with annular calcification are predisposed to developing both infective endocarditis and periannular abscesses.
He examined 300 patients for inflexibility of the ears and found 11 patients with calcification of the auricular cartilage.
Both caseation and calcification are highly suggestive of a tubercular etiology, neither being common in malignancy related lymphadenopathy.
Macroscopically, the largest mass in the lobectomy specimen was firm and white with cystic degeneration and stippling calcification.
The calcification of the Barnes had begun, at the hand of yet another form of regional neurosis.
The most frequent cause of broncholithiasis is calcification of lymph nodes secondary to tuberculosis or histoplasmosis.

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