calcareous deposit

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• calcareous infarct — a deposit of calcium salt in infarcted tissues …   Medical dictionary

• calcareous infiltration — a deposit of lime and magnesium salts in the tissues …   Medical dictionary

• mineral deposit — Introduction       aggregate of a mineral in an unusually high concentration.       About half of the known chemical elements (chemical element) possess some metallic (metal) properties. The term metal, however, is reserved for those chemical… …   Universalium

• organic deposit —    Deposits of calcareous and siliceous remains of animals [16] …   Lexicon of Cave and Karst Terminology

• Calculus — A stone, as in the urinary tract. Also, the calcium salt deposits on the teeth. The word calculus in Latin means a pebble. Pebbles were once used for counting, from which came the mathematical field of calculus. A urinary calculus is a pebble in… …   Medical dictionary

• rimstone — ˈrimzˌtōn, mˌst noun : a calcareous deposit formed as a ring around an overflowing basin (as of a mineral hot spring) * * * /rim stohn /, n. Geol. a calcareous deposit forming a dam at the edge or outlet of an overflowing pool of water, as in a… …   Useful english dictionary

• Tophus — A nodular mass of uric acid crystals. Tophi are characteristically deposited in different soft tissue areas of the body in gout. The word tophus comes via Latin from the Greek tophos meaning a porous volcanic stone. In chronic (tophaceous) gout,… …   Medical dictionary

• Strangford Lough — (derive|Old Norse|Strangrfjörthr|strong ford describing the fast flowing narrows; and Loch Cuan in Irish meaning the calm lough describing the gentle waters of the mud flats) is a lough in County Down, Northern Ireland, separated from the Irish… …   Wikipedia

• Ossification — The process of creating bone, that is of transforming cartilage (or fibrous tissue) into bone. The human skeleton initially consists largely of cartilage which is relatively soft and is gradually transformed into hard bone during infant and child …   Medical dictionary

• globigerina ooze — noun : a layer of soft mud made up in large part of the shells of dead globigerinae and covering great areas of the sea bottom at depths of 1000 to 3000 feet * * * a calcareous deposit occurring upon ocean beds and consisting mainly of the shells …   Useful english dictionary

• liber cells — Sclerenchyma Scle*ren chy*ma, n. [NL., from Gr. sklhro s hard + enchyma as in parenchyma.] 1. (Bot.) Vegetable tissue composed of short cells with thickened or hardened walls, as in nutshells and the gritty parts of a pear. See {Sclerotic}. [1913 …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English