Sentences with phrase «called calcification»

Coral reefs use a mineral called aragonite to make their skeletons, a process called calcification.

In some cases, the heart valve is just thickened, but in others, it can harden by a process called calcification that is similar to that when bone is made.

The process of using calcium to create shells is called calcification.

The doctor reading your mammogram will be looking for different types of breast changes, such as small white spots called calcifications, lumps or tumors called masses, and other suspicious areas that could be signs of cancer.

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Though much of the concern in the media regarding the toxic effects of Zika virus has focused on brain findings of microcephaly, the researchers noted that there are a variety of brain abnormalities that can be found in fetuses exposed to the virus, including gray and white matter volume loss, brainstem abnormalities, calcifications, and a condition called ventriculomegaly, where the ventricles, or fluid filled spaces in the brain, are enlarged.

In the study, called Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults (CARDIA), the researchers looked at 495 men and women who were 35 to 47 years old and free of coronary artery calcification in 2000 or 2001.

A large scale human study called the Rotterdam Study showed that people with the highest dietary intake of vitamin K2 had a 50 % reduced risk of aortic calcification and cardiovascular death than those with the lowest dietary intake.

there is an alchemical process from the middle ages which uses calcification, it is called Spagyric — These procedures involve fermentation, distillation and the extraction of mineral components from the ash of the plant.

In order to establish a cause - and - effect relationship between acidification and decreased calcification, a team led by Carnegie's Ken Caldeira and including Jacob Silverman (the lead author) and Kenneth Schneider, formerly of Carnegie, compared measurements of the rate of calcification in one segment of Australia's Great Barrier Reef called Bird Island that were taken in between 1975 and 1979 to those made at the neighboring Lizard Island in 2008 and 2009.