| NOUN | state | induration, sclerosis | any pathological hardening or thickening of tissue |
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| Meaning | Any pathological hardening or thickening of tissue. | |
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| Synonym | sclerosis | |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Spanish | esclerosis | |
| Catalan | esclerosi, induració | |
| Verbs | indurate | become hard or harder |
| indurate | make hard or harder | |
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