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Definition of Decalcify
1. Verb. Lose calcium or calcium compounds.
2. Verb. Remove calcium or lime from. "Decalcify the rock"
Definition of Decalcify
1. v. t. To deprive of calcareous matter; thus, to decalcify bones is to remove the stony part, and leave only the gelatin.
Definition of Decalcify
1. Verb. To deprive of calcareous matter. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Decalcify
1. [v -FIED, -FYING, -FIES]
Medical Definition of Decalcify
1. To remove lime or calcium salts, especially from bones or teeth. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Decalcify
Literary usage of Decalcify
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Microtomist's Vade-mecum: A Handbook of the Methods of Microscopic Anatomy by Arthur Bolles Lee (1913)
"... decalcify (twenty-four hours is enough) in 1 per cent, hydrochloric acid, ...
20 per cent., decalcify it in nitric acid of 5 per cent., wash this out, ..."
2. Physiological histology, methods and theory by Gustav Mann (1902)
"To decalcify, up till last year, I used either Squire's mixture of glycerin (95
... decalcify in commercial 5 per cent, sulphurous acid, when the insoluble ..."
3. The Transactions of the Microscopical Society of London by Microscopical Society of London (1853)
"In preparing these specimens I first make the section accurately, as though for
mounting in the ordinary way ; I then decalcify it by submersion in dilute ..."
4. Journal of the British Dental Association by British Dental Association (1882)
"manufacture of their characteristic acids which, in turn, decalcify the matrix,
and discolour the whole mass. From our observations of cementum to which ..."
5. Dental Caries and Its Causes: An Investigation Into the Influence of Fungi by Theodor Leber, J. B. Rottenstein (1878)
"... it was possible to completely decalcify the teeth or not by the aid of different
concentrations of acids. We have been able to convince ourselves, ..."
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