[n. of action f. CRETIFY.] Deposition of salts of lime in a tissue of the animal body; calcareous degeneration.
1852–9. Todd, Cycl. Anat., iv. 537/2. Its appearances sometimes approximate to those of the cretification.
1874. Jones & Siev., Pathol. Anat., 64. Saline earthy matter may be deposited … inducing a state … named cretification.
