Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Decalcify

Decalcify , transitive verb

To deprive of calcareous matter; thus, to decalcify bones is to remove the stony part, and leave only the gelatin.

Text from the public-domain GNU Collaborative International Dictionary of English, derived from Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913). Definitions marked with were added by later GCIDE contributors and are not in the original 1913 edition.

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