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词汇 calcify
释义 calcify
verb
uk /ˈkæl.sɪ.faɪ/ us /ˈkæl.sə.faɪ/
[ I or T ]
to become hard or make something hard, especially by the addition of substances containing calcium: (尤指通过添加含钙物质)使变硬,硬化
Foetal bones begin to calcify at about 13 weeks.
He has a form of arthritis that calcifies the spine.
[ I ]
(of ideas, systems, methods, etc.) to become fixed and difficult to change over a period of time:
Historians are given to firm opinions that in time can calcify into rigid ones.
Tight cliques grew and calcified over the years, and strangers were regarded with hostile wariness.
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Keeping and staying the same
Examples from literature

It is not at all improbable that calcified arteries in the living subject may be equally well shown. 

Examples of calcify


calcify
It is not known why some valves tend to thicken and calcify earlier than others.
In cases where a patient presented calcifying tendinitis, an open acromioplasty with lime deposit dissection was performed.
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.
Bioprosthetic valves have a strong tendency to calcify in children.
In addition, for cases with calcifying tendinitis, the calcified area can be optionally removed.
However, very small, atypical or calcified liver lesions are recalcitrant to these methods.
The patients demonstrated clinical evidence of chronic tendinitis of the supraspinatus muscle, some with calcifying tendinitis.
Once sheep are infected, they generally remain infected for life, although a proportion of cysts will not become fertile (such as when they calcify).
In those obtained from subjects in their sixth decade, five out of six valves were partially calcified.
In our cases, there were no heavily calcified valves.
The conduit, which is heavily calcified, is carefully removed and the new larger homograft is sutured to the pulmonary artery.
Of the remaining cysts, 59 (19.5%) were sterile and 47 (15.5%) were calcified.
Additionally, cysticerci were macroscopically classified as either viable or calcified according to their macroscopic appearance.
A 3 x 3 cm calcified thrombus was detected in the cavity.
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