combining form of L. calc-em lime [not formed on L. analogies, which give calci-, but after Gr. words] in various technical terms.
1876. Tomes, Dental Anat., 139. The ‘calcospherites,’ by which name he designated the globular forms seen and described by Rainie. Ibid., 140. For this modified albumen he proposes the name of ‘calcoglobulin.’
1882. Dana, Min., App. III. 20. Calcozincite … a mixture of zincite and calcite.
