calcarious

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English

Adjective

calcarious (not comparable)

  1. having calcium carbonate; chalky
    • 1833, R. J. Bertin, translated by Charles W. Chauncy, Treatise on the Diseases of the Heart, and Great Vessels, Philadelphia: Carey, Lea & Blnachard, page 176:
      At the top of the left ventricle, in the substance of the fleshy fibres, there was a concretion of calcarious phosphate, of a rounded form, and about the size of a small nut.