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To calcify is to become hard, or to make something hard, because lime builds up in it. Lime here is the white mineral from limestone, not the green fruit. Doctors use this word when a soft part of the body slowly turns stiff and stone-like — a lump, a heart valve, even the soft spots on a baby's head as they close. Old and remains can calcify too. Though actually, writers also stretch it: a habit or a rule “calcifies” when it goes stiff and will not change. That stretch belongs to essays and news, not to the science class. The verb is not “add a calcium pill”; it is “turn hard with this mineral.”
鈣化
組成From French calcifier, or built in English from calcium + -ify (“to make into”).
同家族的字
- calciumthe metal in lime, bones, and chalk — what builds up when something calcifies
- calcificationthe noun: the hardening itself
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
calcifyverb/ˈkælsɪfaɪ/
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To make or become hard and stony by impregnating with calcium salts.
- calcify tissue
- calcify rapidly
- 2
To make or become rigid or inflexible; to ossify.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。