(n.) The process of change into a stony or calcareous substance by the deposition of lime salt; -- normally, as in the formation of bone and of teeth; abnormally, as in calcareous degeneration of tissue.
Example Sentences:
(1) Theophylline kinetics, as an in vivo probe for the potentially toxic cytochrome P-450I pathway of drug metabolism, were studied in 11 healthy volunteers and 11 patients with calcific chronic pancreatitis at Madras, South India.
(2) Weddellite calcification was associated with benign lesions in 16 cases, but incidental atypical lobular hyperplasia and lobular carcinoma in situ were present, each in one case.
(3) Bilateral symmetric soft-tissue masses posterior to the glandular tissue with accompanying calcifications should suggest the diagnosis.
(4) From these results, it was suggested that the inhibitory effect of Cd on in vitro calcification of MC3T3-E1 cells may be due to both a depression of cell-mediated calcification and a decrease in physiochemical mineral deposition.
(5) The amount of it was in correlation with the stage of the calcification.
(6) Eight cases of calcification following anterior dislocation of the head of the radius are described.
(7) Despite study for over 100 years, sites and patterns of laryngeal calcification and ossification are understood incompletely.
(8) Pathologic examination demonstrates calcifications in the dead collagen that makes up catgut suture.
(9) Silicon, a relatively unknown trace element in nutritional research, has been uniquely localized in active calcification sites in young bone.
(10) The nucleator of Bacterionema matruchotii calcification was characterized.
(11) Non-inflammatory calcific disease of the mitral valve apparatus is a common finding in elderly patients.
(12) Poor prognostic indicators included oligohydramnios (20 of 21 subsequently died), absence of caliectasis (20 of 24 died), a large amount of urine ascites (five of six died), and dystrophic bladder wall or peritoneal calcification (five of five subsequently died).
(13) Before bone formation, a specific calcification process was found in most of the BMG from day 5 and 7 after implantation.
(14) The author maintains that the osteoma of the brachial muscle as well as post-traumatic periarticular calcifications, occur in the muscle mass or in the tendon that prolongs it, or in the articular capsule, as a result of surgical treament and post-operative immobilization, and only exceptionally following orthopaedic treatment of traumatic lesions.
(15) We suggest that scintigraphic evidence of metabolic bone disease is present at the onset of terminal uremia with much higher frequency than is detectable by radiographs, and that unsuspected soft tissue calcification may also be detected on occasion.
(16) Plain abdominal radiography demonstrated calcification in three patients and evidence of Thorotrast (thorium dioxide) deposition in one.
(17) CT shows greatest promise in abdominal aortic scanning, where reliable identification of the aorta can be achieved even in the absence of enlargement or calcification.
(18) The importance of the coexistence of both enzymes for the control of initial calcification of dental hard tissues is suggested.
(19) Fibrous astrocytes, myofibroblasts, lymphocytes, macrophages, and calcification were found respectively in two cases, and fibroblast-like cells were found in one case.
(20) The recognition of sedimented calcifications present in about 4% of symptomatic women undergoing mammography is important because these characteristic calcifications are an indication of benignity.
Ossification
Definition:
(n.) The formation of bone; the process, in the growth of an animal, by which inorganic material (mainly lime salts) is deposited in cartilage or membrane, forming bony tissue; ostosis.
(n.) The state of being changed into a bony substance; also, a mass or point of ossified tissue.
Example Sentences:
(1) Radiologic abnormalities included an unusual "moth-eaten" appearance of the markedly short long bones, bizzare ectopic ossification centers, and marked platyspondyly with unusual ossification centers.
(2) Despite study for over 100 years, sites and patterns of laryngeal calcification and ossification are understood incompletely.
(3) The tumor has a remarkable tendency to grow from the periostal tissues peripherally with a usually marked degree of ossification without primary medullary involvement.
(4) The site of ossification assumed the appearance of the original costochondral junction.
(5) Radiological findings can include a large, poorly ossified skull with decreased ossification in the sutural areas.
(6) For the sternum, humerus and ilium-ischium, however, ossification in A2 fetuses increased to the levels observed in the PF and C groups.
(7) The authors emphasize the value of serial scintigrams before surgery to assess the maturation of ossification.
(8) This paper reports the results of a radiological population study on the ossification of the posterior longitudinal ligament (OPLL) in both the cervical and the thoracic spine among Japanese.
(9) Phthisical eyes of 2 patients revealed clinically unsuspected, partially necrotic and partially vital malignant melanomas of the uvea and extensive intraocular ossification.
(10) Postoperatively, bladder capacity was adequate without evidence of incrustation or ossification.
(11) Neither the metaphyses nor epiphyseal ossification centres were affected by the condition.
(12) In the resected specimen, the margins of the soft part tumor showed shell-like ossification, suggesting the subperiosteal or intraosteal origin.
(13) Pathologic features include focal and diffuse calcification and ossification in the anterior longitudinal ligament, paraspinal connective tissue, and annulus fibrosis, degeneration in the peripheral annulus fibrosis fibers, L-T-, and Y-shaped anterolateral extensions of fibrous tissue, hypervascularity, chronic inflammatory cellular infiltration, and periosteal new bone formation on the anterior surface of the vertebral bodies.
(14) Recurrent ossifications were detected in them some years after surgery, and one of them complained of dysphagia again.
(15) The occurrence of lumbar heterotopic ossification seems not to have been previously reported in the literature.
(17) Radiographic findings that were tabulated included joint space narrowing, sternal or costal osteophytes, articular calcification, vacuum phenomena, and the degree of ossification of the costal cartilages.
(18) Canal structures, remnants of the craniopharyngeal canal, were observed in specimens showing bilateral centers of ossification in the sphenoid corpus.
(19) Heterotopic ossification occurred more often in male patients (23%) than in female (10%), and was most frequent in the 20- to 30-year age group.
(20) The aim of the investigation was to elucidate further the role of nutritional factors in the pathogenesis of disturbed endochondral ossification, occurring in osteochondrosis.