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词汇 calcifying
释义 calcifying
present participle ofcalcify
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 of calcifying


calcifying

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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.
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Calcium carbonate is vital to calcifying organisms such as shellfish, corals, and coccolithophores (a type of phytoplankton).
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The accumulation of ions is driven by ion pumps packed within the calcifying epithelium.
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Calcifying organisms use calcium carbonate to produce shells, skeletons and tests.
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First, they are the earliest known calcifying organisms (organisms that built shells out of calcium carbonate).
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While the full ecological consequences of these changes in calcification are still uncertain, it appears likely that many calcifying species will be adversely affected.
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Organisms from many phyla produce calcium carbonate skeletons, so organismal processes vary widely, but the effect of physical conditions on water chemistry impacts all calcifying organisms.
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Also, changes in the ecological success of calcifying organisms caused by ocean acidification may affect the biological pump by altering the strength of the hard tissues pump.
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This makes it more difficult for marine calcifying organisms, such as coral and some plankton, to form biogenic calcium carbonate, and such structures become vulnerable to dissolution.
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These small living bacterial cells are distinct from the purported nanobacteria or calcifying nanoparticles, which were proposed to be living organisms that were 0.1 m in diameter.
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Corals and calcifying macroalgae such as coralline red algae and calcifying green algae are extremely sensitive to ocean acidification because they build their hard structures out of calcium carbonate.
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