calcareous degeneration

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The deposition of insoluble calcium salts in degenerated tissue that has become necrotic, as in dystrophic calcification.

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Writing on stars are mostly about gossip and scandal, a degeneration into lifestyle reporting.
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And in her final years, when she was blinded by macular degeneration and suffocating with emphysema, vanity left her isolated.
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Two things become more likely with age, she said: degeneration and cancer.
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When RPE cells die, as they do in macular degeneration, the photoreceptors begin to die, too, and the patient goes blind.
Saving Sight, Testing Faith|Sharon Begley|May 16, 2011|DAILY BEAST

Except in this disease, the degeneration indicates a serious blood condition.
A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis|James Campbell Todd
The rocks of the island are principally calcareous and in a very advanced state of decomposition.
Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia] [Volume 2 of 2]|Phillip Parker King
Calcareous incrustations, including fragments of madrepores, and of shells, cemented by splintery carbonate of lime.
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Sir John had lately noticed another degeneration, namely, in the quality of the London gas.
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The degeneration of the original species is still greater in our climates.
Buffon's Natural History. Volume IX (of 10)|Georges Louis Leclerc de Buffon