Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A thickening or hardening of a body part, as of an artery, especially from excessive formation of fibrous interstitial tissue.
- n. A disease characterized by this thickening or hardening.
- n. Botany The hardening of cells by the formation of a secondary wall and the deposition of lignin.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A hardening or induration; specifically, the increase of the sustentacular tissue (neuroglia, or connective tissue) of a part at the expense of the more active tissue.
- n. In botany, the induration of a tissue or cell-wall either by thickening of the membranes or by their lignification (that is, by the formation of lignin in them).
Wiktionary
- n. pathology The abnormal hardening of body tissues, such as an artery.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Med.) Induration; hardening; especially, that form of induration produced in an organ by increase of its interstitial connective tissue.
- n. (Bot.) Hardening of the cell wall by lignification.
WordNet 3.0
- n. any pathological hardening or thickening of tissue
Etymologies
- From Ancient Greek σκλήρωσις (sklerosis, "an induration"), from *σκληροῦν (skleroyn, "to harden, indurate"), from σκληρός (skleros, "hard") (Wiktionary)
- Middle English sclirosis, from Medieval Latin sclīrōsis, from Greek sklērōsis, hardening, from sklēroun, to harden; see scleroma. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“The company just received U.S. approval in late May for a new drug for Pompe disease, and its experimental biologic drug for multiple sclerosis is getting expedited review by the Food and Drug Administration.”
“LUBLIN: They share the word sclerosis, but nothing else.”
“Using genetics and stem cells, separate teams of researchers are investigating amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, which is commonly known by the name of the famed baseball player whose career was cut short by the disease.”
“It is similar to multiple sclerosis, which is estimated to affect between one in 1,000 and one in 10,000 people, but less severe.”
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“Ocrelizumab will be further studied in the treatment of relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis, which is currently in Phase II trials, Roche said.”
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“There is another problem, vastly more important it is what Bright calls the sclerosis of decision making.”
“And basically what happened was part of the charity was multiple sclerosis, which is the disease that really did my mother in, and he knew about that.”
“KING: Even if the mental health problem is a direct result of multiple sclerosis, which is a physical disease, ...”
“It is called in medical terms focal sclerosis, which is said to be a common disease in young African-Americans, in which, according to doctors, a kidney filters leak protein into the urine.”
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“Daclizumab is a biologic currently in phase III testing for multiple sclerosis, which is a multibillion-dollar market opportunity.”
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘sclerosis’.
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A collection of words found in English that are either purely Greek or have Greek etymology.
Please add with caution and certainty. Will be regularly updated by me.etymology, philosophy, laconic, disharmony, patriarchic, archaic, phlogiston, aether, aeon, angel, arachnid, rhythm and 346 more...
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Medscape
Stedman's Medical Dictionary
Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary
Taber's Cyclopedic Medical Dictionaryoedema, arthro-, chordoma, fistula, sclerosis, amyotrophic, etiology, anaphylaxis, histamine, polymorphism, postmortem, postpartum and 16 more...
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gre2
aberrant, aberration, aboveboard, abrasive, abstemious, acme, admonish, affable, affluent, alacrity, allegory, alleviate and 1824 more...
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sclero-
hard; of the sclera
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newGRE
mostly from magoosh
imbue, verge on, nonchalant, deliberate, timorous, futile, provisional, dissect, checked, tinged, alluring, visionary and 1046 more...
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Lookups on Net
rip-off, sclerosis, clip, envisagement, gaga, up to scratch, egregious
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Pathologica
carcinoma, sarcoma, dyscrasia, sclerosis, ictus, intussusception, thrombosis, embolism, sepsis, carcinomatosis, acrochordon, nevus and 58 more...
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words i should already know
words i should already know
turgid, jactitation, laconic, sclerosis, viscous, cloister, coxcomb, codify, coiffure, colloquy, collusion, comity and 5 more...
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