Usually means: Transformation of tissue into flesh.
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  1. carnification: Collins English Dictionary
  2. carnification: Wordnik
  3. carnification: Wiktionary
  4. carnification: Infoplease Dictionary
  5. carnification: Dictionary.com
  6. Carnification: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  7. carnification: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  8. Carnification: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  9. carnification: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  10. carnification: Free Dictionary
  11. carnification: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  12. Carnification: Dictionary/thesaurus

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Definitions from Wiktionary (carnification)

noun:  (medicine) A pathological process in which chronic inflammation or infection causes lung tissue to organize into a fibrous form that resembles meat, which can lead to a loss of normal lung function.
noun:  (medicine, botany) A similar pathological transformation to other types of tissue so that it becomes fibrous and dense.
noun:  The literal transformation of something into flesh or meat.
noun:  The transformation of something into a human being.
noun:  The process of something nonphysical taking on a physical form (not necessarily involving flesh).
noun:  Carnal (sexual) activity.

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