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CALCIFICATION [5 records]

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Record 1 2019-09-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • Pools
DEF

Formation of calcium salts on walls of pools or pipes, or in a filter or heater, due to low solubility of calcium salts.

CONT

Another undesirable condition that may arise from infrequent backwashing is calcification. This is a cementing action which makes the filter media impermeable.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Piscines
CONT

La formation de dépôts calcaires dans le matériau filtrant est un autre inconvénient de lavages trop espacés. Ces dépôts, en imperméabilisant le support filtrant, offrent une forte résistance à la circulation de l'eau et, dans certains cas, peuvent même colmater complètement le filtre.

Spanish

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Record 2 2003-11-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • Symptoms (Medicine)
DEF

The deposition of calcareous matter within organic tissue so that it becomes hardened.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Symptômes (Médecine)
DEF

Dépôt de sels de calcium dans les tissus organiques.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Síntomas (Medicina)
DEF

Proceso por el cual las sales de calcio se acumulan en [...] los tejidos.

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Record 3 2003-09-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • Soil Mechanics (Engineering)
  • Soil Science
DEF

... those processes of soil formation in which the surface soil is kept sufficiently supplied with calcium to saturate the soil colloids to a high degree with exchangeable calcium and thus render them relatively immobile and nearly neutral in reaction.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Mécanique des sols
  • Science du sol
DEF

Processus qui comporte une accumulation de carbonate de calcium dans certains horizons du sol et notamment dans les horizons B et C.

CONT

«La calcification» : perte moyenne de silice avec libération d'oxydes ferriques souvent déshydratés mais pas de perte d'alumine. Le complexe est saturé d'ions calcium, donc sol neutre ou alcalin. Lessivage des alcalino-terreux souvent avec accumulation de carbonate dans les horizons inférieurs mais pas de lessivage de colloïdes ni de fer.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Mecánica del suelo
  • Ciencia del suelo
DEF

Proceso por el que las sales de calcio se acumulan en el suelo [...].

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Record 4 2003-08-22

English

Subject field(s)
  • Radiography (Medicine)
  • Musculoskeletal System
DEF

The deposition of calcareous matter within organic tissue so that it becomes hardened.

CONT

Greenfield has classified the conditions that lead to deposition of calcium within soft tissues into three types: metastatic calcification related to a disturbance in calcium or phosphorus metabolism; calcinosis due to the deposition of calcium in skin and subcutaneous tissue in the presence of normal calcium metabolism; and dystrophic calcification related to calcium deposits in damaged or devitalized tissue in the absence of a generalized metabolic derangement.

OBS

It also refers to the depositing of lime salts in cartilage during bone formation. [From BUMED, 1989, p. 279.]

French

Domaine(s)
  • Radiographie (Médecine)
  • Appareil locomoteur (Médecine)
DEF

Processus pathologique d'imprégnation par des dépôts de sels insolubles de calcium de tissus qui n'en contiennent pas normalement. [D'après MEDEC, 1989, p. 139.]

OBS

On désigne également ainsi le processus physiologique observé au cours de l'ossification. [D'après MEDEC, 1989, p. 139.]

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Radiografía (Medicina)
  • Sistema musculoesquelético (Medicina)
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Record 5 2003-08-22

English

Subject field(s)
  • Genitourinary Tract
CONT

... There have been reports that film-screen mammography performs better at detecting fine, sand-like clusters of calcifications in which individual edges are not well defined.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Appareil génito-urinaire
CONT

Les examens radiologiques contribuent à faire [des mastoses] un inventaire précis montrant des secteurs mammaires densifiés, hétérogènes ou pommelés, tachetés en cas de fibrose micromodulaire. À ces signes d'involution fibreuse se surajoutent souvent des calcifications polymorphes pour la plupart absolument caractéristiques.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Aparato genitourinario
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