Cretifaction
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Cretifaction is a noun meaning (obsolete, medicine) Impregnation with salts of lime.
Meaning
(obsolete, medicine) Impregnation with salts of lime.
Example Sentences
But the case reported clearly proves that chronic interstitial nephritis must be taken in certain cases as a co-phenomenon of a general arterial disease; and in this case the considerable atheromatous changes, and the cretifaction in the large vessels, and the occurrence of endarteritis obliterans without cretifaction in the small vessels of the whole body, are especially noteworthy.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include frigefaction, lithifaction, citrination, lapidification, ammonification, petrifaction.
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