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What does calcify mean?

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  1. (transitive) To make something hard and stony by impregnating with calcium salts.
  2. (intransitive) To become hard and stony by impregnation with calcium salts.
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If plaque is not regularly removed the flora evolves, and plaque may calcify, forming calculus.
The posterior aspect of the lateral pterygoid plate may be joined to the angular spine of the greater wing by a pterygopetrosal ligament that may calcify.
With increasing age, they may hyalinize or calcify.
My father did not achieve that for himself, as his arteries had started to calcify before he discovered the immortality vitamin.
The underlying blood coagulates rapidly, and the periosteum begins to calcify within a few weeks, as shown by the X-ray.
At the fifth year the second permanent molars, and at the eighth year the third molars or wisdom teeth, begin to calcify.

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