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sclerosis
n.
abnormal hardening of body tissue (Medicine); hardening of plant tissues or cell walls (Botany)
Sclerosis
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
Noun
1. any pathological hardening or thickening of tissue
(synonym) induration
(hypernym) pathology
(hyponym) multiple sclerosis, MS, disseminated sclerosis, disseminated multiple sclerosis
Sclerosis
(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.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
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amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
noun
Gehrig's disease, a motor neurone disease, similar to muscular sclerosis, where the limbs twitch and the muscles gradually waste away