calcification

Introduction

Deposition of Ca+2 in tissues.

Pathology

• ectopic/dystrophic calcification may occur in response to injury or with aging

Physiology

• calcification of bone matrix is a physiological process (ossification)

More general terms

• concretion
• mineralization

More specific terms

• ectopic/dystrophic calcification
• metastatic calcification

Additional terms

• Ca+2
• ossification (primary/secondary)