Crossword clues for sclerosis
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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.
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(Bot.) Hardening of the cell wall by lignification.
Cerebro-spinal sclerosis (Med.), an affection in which patches of hardening, produced by increase of the neuroglia and atrophy of the true nerve tissue, are found scattered throughout the brain and spinal cord. It is associated with complete or partial paralysis, a peculiar jerking tremor of the muscles, headache, and vertigo, and is usually fatal. Formerly referred to as multiple sclerosis, disseminated sclerosis, or insular sclerosis, but now usually called only multiple sclerosis, or MS.
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
n. (context pathology English) The abnormal hardening of body tissues, such as an artery.
WordNet
n. any pathological hardening or thickening of tissue [syn: induration]
[also: scleroses (pl)]
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
- in botany, a process which hardens plant tissue by adding fibers and sclereids, resulting in sclerenchyma
- Cyberbrain Sclerosis, a fictional disease introduced in Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex. The disease is characterized by hardening of the brain tissues precipitated by the cyberization process.
- In economics, see: Eurosclerosis
ar:تَصلُب ca:Esclerosi mk:Склероза pl:Stwardnienie pt:Esclerose fi:Skleroosi sv:Skleros
In medicine, sclerosis (also spelled sclerosus in the names of a few disorders; from Greek σκληρός "hard") is the stiffening of a structure, usually caused by a replacement of the normal organ-specific tissue with connective tissue.
Types include:
- Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, sometimes known as Lou Gehrig's disease, a progressive, incurable, usually fatal disease of motor neurons.
- Atherosclerosis, a deposit of fatty materials, such as cholesterol, in the arteries which causes hardening.
- Focal segmental glomerulosclerosis is a disease that attacks the kidney's filtering system ( glomeruli) causing serious scarring and thus a cause of nephrotic syndrome in children and adolescents, as well as an important cause of kidney failure in adults.
- Hippocampal sclerosis, a brain damage often seen in individuals with temporal lobe epilepsy.
- Lichen sclerosus, a disease that hardens the connective tissues of the vagina and the penis. An autoimmune disorder.
- Liver sclerosis is a common misspelling of cirrhosis of the liver.
- Multiple sclerosis, or focal sclerosis, is a central nervous system disease which affects coordination.
- Osteosclerosis, a condition where the bone density is significantly increased.
- Otosclerosis, a disease of the ears.
- Systemic sclerosis (progressive systemic scleroderma), a rare, chronic disease which affects the skin, and in some cases also blood vessels and internal organs.
- Tuberous sclerosis, a rare genetic disease which affects multiple systems.
- Primary sclerosing cholangitis, a hardening of the bile duct by scarring and repeated inflammation.
- Primary lateral sclerosis, progressive muscle weakness in the voluntary muscles.
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.