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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of decalcify.

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  • The House, which has been a shameless lapdog of the administration for the past year since the Democrats took control of that body, has a chance here to show it still has at least one vertebra left in its severely decalcified spine, It should refuse to pass any extension of NSA warrantless spying authority, and should refuse immunity for the telecom industry.

    Bush's Protect America Bill Bull 2008

  • After doing research on the net I see that those spots are early signs of decay, the teeth are decalcified in those white spots?

    White Spots On Teeth-Enamel Hypoplasia Dr. Dean Brandon 2006

  • If the areas weren't there before, and formed later on, they are likely decalcified areas which are the beginning stages of cavities.

    White Spots On Teeth-Enamel Hypoplasia Dr. Dean Brandon 2006

  • Repeat the last experiment, using a cube of the decalcified bone obtained from Experiment 4.

    A Practical Physiology Albert F. Blaisdell

  • Take a portion of the decalcified bone obtained from

    A Practical Physiology Albert F. Blaisdell

  • Perforating fibers, human parietal bone, decalcified.

    Illustrations. Fig. 75 1918

  • Transverse section of body of human fibula, decalcified.

    Illustrations. Fig. 77 1918

  • Arranged round these vessels are circles of the formative elements, the bone corpuscles or osteoblasts (b.c.) each embedded in bony matrix in a little bed, the lacuna, and communicating one with another by fine processes through canaliculi in the matrix, which processes are only to be seen clearly in decalcified bone (See Section 70).

    Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata 1906

  • Senn proposed decalcified bone-plates to be used to fill in the gaps.

    Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine 1896

  • Billroth resorted to it, and Senn modified it by substituting decalcified bone-plates for sutures.

    Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine 1896

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