calcify

Even the quality of the playing seemed to calcify a bit over the years.

This town, the county seat, had been calcifying steadily for twenty years.

He was in his late 50's, and he could feel himself calcifying, dying.

One era's cultural breakthroughs may calcify and become stereotypes through time.

A few keep on experimenting, while some are being better paid to calcify than they ever were to innovate.

Maxillary canines begin to calcify by 4 months of age.

These nodules have a tendency to calcify as the patient ages.

So America's icons calcify into soothing monuments with simple slogans.

The blow almost unhinged him; he felt himself calcify.

Experiments suggest it is also very harmful to calcifying plankton.

Was power a limy river calcifying those who dared to swim in it?

Like so many other narratives that immediately calcify into our 24/7 media's conventional wisdom, it is fiction.

I don't care how long you've been calcifying your liver; you can only do that for so long.

The part left inside can calcify, causing permanent deformities.

They have a tendency to calcify and are highly vascularized.

Lesions have a tendency to calcify as they heal.

With age, the cartilage may calcify in the typical "snowflake" pattern.

Still these valves eventually calcify and durability of the valve is decreased.

Before the beginning of a species' mating season, the antlers calcify under the velvet and become hard bone.

There is nothing unusual about rezoning; the city would calcify if the rules were not periodically revised.

Plaque that remains in the oral cavity long enough will eventually calcify and become calculus.

During the development of most tetrapods, teeth begin to calcify at their tips.

Momentum builds, support erodes and perceptions calcify to an irreversible point.

My parents were keenly aware, too, of the way the medical club tends both to calcify and deify its members.

Their intervertebral disc material can calcify and become more brittle.