0 a gradual increase in the amount of calcium in body tissue, sometimes as a response to injury, causing the tissue to harden, or an area of such tissue:
We frequently found the calcification of ligaments and muscle attachments.
Arterial walls may develop calcifications, which reduce the ability of the vessels to transport blood adequately.
It is very difficult to prevent the calcification of public opinion.
The calcification of the technology comes at the end of a long period of innovation.
In this context, pancreatic calcification and a normal small-bowel biopsy virtually establishes an exocrine pancreatic cause of diarrhoea.
The left fibula has a large, irregular calcification from the posterior surface of the proximal diaphysis consistent with myositis ossificans.
It is well recognised that benign calcifications occur naturally in the subcutaneous tissues of the breast, usually within sebaceous glands.
Recent reports suggest that the durability of these valves is limited, and that pregnancy accelerates their degeneration and calcification.
In this case extra calcification in the hands and wrists (e, f) and face with depressed nasal bridge (g) were diagnostic.
Instead, they represented gross calcification of the mitral valve, and of the papillary muscles, as a consequence of viral myocarditis.
However, cataracts, microphthalmos, necrosis, calcifications, blindness, anterior chamber and optic disk malformations and papillary membrane vestiges have also been described.
Other fetal organs can be involved such as the fetal heart (cardiomegaly with a thick myocardium which may contain punctuate calcifications) or the fetal lung.
