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the body's way of turning soft tissue into accidental coral
means To harden by depositing calcium salts, or more loosely, to become rigid and unchanging over time.
from From Latin 'calx,' meaning lime or limestone — the same chalky stuff that gives us 'calcium' and 'chalk.' The '-fy' is the familiar Latin '-ficare,' 'to make,' so to calcify is literally 'to make limestone.' Romans burned limestone in kilns to make 'calx' for mortar and plaster, which is why the word carries that sense of something soft turning stony.
- pineal stones
- Your brain literally grows tiny calcium crystals
- arteries harden
- Calcified blood vessels age like rusting pipes
- bone repair
- Healing fractures rebuild via controlled calcification
- fossil maker
- Calcified shells become limestone over millions of years
- metaphor
- Beliefs calcify too, hardening until nothing bends
mammoth tusk from siberia — 65,000-year-old ivory specimen showing calcium carbonate mineral replacement from permafrost preservation
petrified forest arizona — 225-million-year-old trees in northern arizona where silica replaced wood tissue through calcification
human kidney stones — calcium oxalate deposits affecting 10% of people globally, causing urinary tract calcification