CALCIFIC

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does calcific mean? 

• CALCIFIC (adjective)
  The adjective CALCIFIC has 1 sense:

1. involving or resulting from calcification

  Familiarity information: CALCIFIC used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CALCIFIC (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Involving or resulting from calcification

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Pertainym:

calcification (tissue hardened by deposition of lime salts)

 Context examples 

Thanks, in part, to pigs at the University of Wisconsin-Madison's Arlington Agricultural Research Station, scientists now are catching up on understanding the roots of calcific aortic valve disease (CAVD).

(New Hope for Stopping An Understudied Heart Disease in Its Tracks, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Additional forms of arteriosclerosis involve calcification of the media of muscular arteries (Monkeberg medial calcific sclerosis) and thickening of the walls of small arteries or arterioles due to cell proliferation or hyaline deposition (arteriolosclerosis).

(Arteriosclerosis, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)