0 (of body tissue) hard because of an increase in the amount of calcium, sometimes because of injury:
Reform-minded leaders want to reinvigorate calcified institutions.
Her work underscores just how calcified much of cinema is.
Half of those getting a heart scan show some calcified plaque.
A calcified mass was located in the posterior wall of the eyeball.
They're entrenched in calcified points of view, highly partisan, and you won't change them.
The calcified bureaucracies of our national security institutions are not capable of rapid change.
Cysts with fluid only and without protoscoleces were considered sterile, and all hard cysts were classified as calcified.
With the continued stress of ejected systolic volume over the other leaflet, it would tend to become fibrotic and calcified.
In addition, for cases with calcifying tendinitis, the calcified area can be optionally removed.