a. [f. as prec. + -FIC.] Forming lime; belonging to calcification.

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1861.  Bumstead, Ven. Dis. (1879), 594. Gummatous tumors occasionally undergo calcific degeneration.

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1866.  A. Flint, Princ. Med. (1880), 59. We find calcific deposits in cheesy masses.

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1869.  Huxley, Phys., xii. 324. A deposit of calcific matter takes place.

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