0 present participle of calcify
1 to become hard or make something hard, especially by the addition of substances containing calcium:
In cases where a patient presented calcifying tendinitis, an open acromioplasty with lime deposit dissection was performed.
The patients demonstrated clinical evidence of chronic tendinitis of the supraspinatus muscle, some with calcifying tendinitis.
In cases of calcifying tendinitis, the locating was carried out by axial view x-ray.
Punk was quickly calcifying, and the hungriest minds were already moving on.
It is the most melancholy of all experience to recognise the hardening, calcifying process which inevitably seems to supervene upon a sentence of five or six years or more.
Calcium carbonate is vital to calcifying organisms such as shellfish, corals, and coccolithophores (a type of phytoplankton).
The accumulation of ions is driven by ion pumps packed within the calcifying epithelium.
Calcifying organisms use calcium carbonate to produce shells, skeletons and tests.
