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sclerosis

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WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. any pathological hardening or thickening of tissue [syn: induration ] [also: scleroses (pl)]

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Sclerosis (also sclerosus in the Latin names of a few disorders) is a hardening of tissue and other anatomical features; it may refer to: Sclerosis (medicine) , a hardening of tissue in zoology, a process which hardens forms sclerites , a hardened exoskeleton ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sclerosis \Scle*ro"sis\, n. [NL., fr. Gr. (??, fr. sklhro`s hard.] (Med.) Induration; hardening; especially, that form of induration produced in an organ by increase of its interstitial connective tissue. (Bot.) Hardening of the cell wall by lignification. ...

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES multiple sclerosis COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE multiple ▪ Records of patients with multiple sclerosis were selected as a neurological comparison group. ▪ It said: I am thirty years old and have been disabled ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"morbid hardening of the tissue," late 14c., from Medieval Latin sclirosis "a hardness, hard tumor," from Greek sklerosis "hardening," from skleros "hard" (see sclero- ). Figurative use by 1954.

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context pathology English) The abnormal hardening of body tissues, such as an artery.

Usage examples of sclerosis.

This layered imaging technique, far more precise than old-fashioned X-raying, allowed one to determine the age of the victim to the decade, judging by the hardening in the articular cartilage and in the blood vessels, since medicine, at the time these people lived, had not yet learned how to halt the changes termed sclerosis.

Autoimmune diseases such as multiple sclerosis and various forms of arthritis may occur or reoccur in response to viral activation due to stress.

Grinspoon told him the defendant was one of thousands of people who claim that marijuana is the best thing they can find for controlling the kind of painful spasms associated with quadriplegia, multiple sclerosis, and traumatic nerve injury.

It was used in the treatment of multiple sclerosis, and it had been shown to reverse tetrodotoxin toxicity in some animal experiments.

The little scoundrel is suffering from lignivorous invasions of all kinds, evil eruptions of xylostroma, probable sclerosis of the resin canals, peduncular collapse, weevil infestation, and galloping wet rot.

Sometimes, while he was sitting in front of the monitors watching messages come in, he imagined he could feel the beast Sclerosis moving through his body, unmaking him cell by cell, nerve by nerve, and the words appearing on the screens, tales of sightings and visitations, began to seem like just another manifestation of disease.

When they confirmed the diagnosis of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, ALS they called it, I'd known something was wrong.

There's been an outbreak of a form of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis on CY30 VI.

There's been an outbreak of a form of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis on CY3O VI.

She had been diagnosed nearly two years ago with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis — ALS, or more commonly Lou Gehrig's disease — and was on a certain downward course toward total paralysis and, eventually, death.

She had been diagnosed nearly two years ago with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis &mdash.

There was Hodgkin's disease, leukemia, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.

She had been diagnosed nearly two years ago with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis- ALS, or more commonly Lou Gehrig's disease- and was on a certain downward course toward total paralysis and, eventually, death.

Morrie had amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), Lou Gehrig's disease, a brutal, unforgiving illness of the neurological system.

This layered imaging technique, far more precise than old-fashioned X-raying, allowed one to determine the age of the victim to the decade, judging by the hardening in the articular cartilage and in the blood vessels, since medicine, at the time these people lived, had not yet learned how to halt the changes termed sclerosis.