calcification
Example Sentences
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A scan with significant calcification helps doctors and patients make a decision about whether they need to take a statin or other cholesterol-lowering medication.
“No significant masses, calcifications or other findings are seen in either breast.”
From Los Angeles Times
And even for executive physicals - which cater to busy professionals and include a host of additional tests - he says it is still uncommon for that imaging to come back "perfectly normal" with no coronary calcification.
From BBC
Nawi said Strachan’s projects resist the “calcification of history,” which she describes as the process in which a dominant group reinforces narratives that glorify themselves while ignoring or actively erasing the contributions of others.
From Los Angeles Times
She stated the actual cause of death was narrowing and "calcification of his coronary arteries due to old age".
From BBC
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