Usually means: Turns into hard calcium deposits.
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  1. calcifies: Merriam-Webster
  2. calcifies: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. calcifies: Collins English Dictionary
  4. calcifies: Vocabulary.com
  5. calcifies: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. calcifies: Wiktionary
  7. calcifies: Dictionary.com
  8. calcifies: TheFreeDictionary.com

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. calcifies: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. calcifies: Medical dictionary

(Note: See calcify as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (calcify)

verb:  (transitive, intransitive) To make or become hard and stony by impregnating with calcium salts.
verb:  (figuratively, by extension) To make or become rigid or inflexible; to ossify.
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