Meaning | Any pathological hardening or thickening of tissue. |
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Synonym | sclerosis |
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Narrower | amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, ALS, Lou Gehrig's disease | thickening of tissue in the motor tracts of the lateral columns and anterior horns of the spinal cord |
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arteriolosclerosis | sclerosis of the arterioles |
arteriosclerosis, arterial sclerosis, hardening of the arteries, induration of the arteries, coronary-artery disease | sclerosis of the arterial walls |
multiple sclerosis, MS, disseminated sclerosis, disseminated multiple sclerosis | A chronic progressive nervous disorder involving loss of myelin sheath around certain nerve fibers |
osteosclerosis | Abnormal hardening or eburnation of bone |
Broader | pathology | Any deviation from a healthy or normal / normal condition |
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Spanish | esclerosis |
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Catalan | esclerosi, induració |
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Verbs | indurate | become hard or harder |
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indurate | make hard or harder |