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cretifaction

cretifaction noun: impregnation with salts of lime.

Noun

cretifaction (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete) Impregnation with salts of lime.
    • But the case reported clearly proves that chronic interstitial nephritis must be taken in certain cases as a co-phenomenon of a general arterial disease; and in this case the considerable atheromatous changes, and the cretifaction in the large vessels, and the occurrence of endarteritis obliterans...1885, The Practitioner, volume 34, page 55

Questions about cretifaction

What does cretifaction mean?
Cretifaction means impregnation with salts of lime.
What part of speech is cretifaction?
Cretifaction is a noun.

Words near cretifaction in the dictionary

  1. Creticism
  2. cretick
  3. creticke
  4. creticks
  5. cretics
  6. cretifaction
  7. cretified
  8. cretifies
  9. cretify
  10. cretifying
  11. cretin

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