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• v  lose calcium or calcium compounds
• v  remove calcium or lime from
  decalcify the rock

• The muscles, no longer required to work against gravity, weaken dangerously, and at the same time bones begin to decalcify.

• calcify

Quotes

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• Sue Townsend in Times Online
  It went black,said Townsend. "So the surgeon had to take it out and start again. The team also had to decalcify my veins, which were blocked by the thick blood that comes with kidney failure."