Sclerosis

[Scle*ro·sis]

Someone is diagnosed with the condition sclerosis when a part of their body becomes unusually hardened. A diet that's too high in cholesterol can cause sclerosis of the arteries.

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Induration; hardening; especially, that form of induration produced in an organ by increase of its interstitial connective tissue.

Noun
any pathological hardening or thickening of tissue


n.
Induration; hardening; especially, that form of induration produced in an organ by increase of its interstitial connective tissue.

n.
Hardening of the cell wall by lignification.


Sclerosis

Scle*ro"sis , n. [NL., fr. Gr. (, fr. sklhro`s hard.] 1. (Med.) Induration; hardening; especially, that form of induration produced in an organ by increase of its interstitial connective tissue. 2. (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. Called also multiple, disseminated, ∨ insular, sclerosis.

Induration; hardening; especially, that form of induration produced in an organ by increase of its interstitial connective tissue.

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