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  • verb Present participle of sclerose.

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Examples

  • Patients with lesions such as sclerosing adenosis, fibraoadenoma with complex features, moderate or florid hyperplasia without atypia, or atypical ductal or lobular hyperplasia were excluded from being either a case or a control.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Deepti Joshi et al. 2009

  • Less commonly it can cause pneumonia, meningitis, encephalitis and worst of all subacute sclerosing panencephalitis, which is an inflammation of the brain that emerges some years after the measles infection one in 100, 000 people.

    Dr Luisa Dillner's guide to ... Measles 2011

  • Primary sclerosing cholangitis: a disease in which the bile ducts narrow because of inflammation and scarring.

    Who needs a liver transplant? 2009

  • Michael Plouffe , 31, of Old Lyme, Conn., had been trying for four years to get a claim approved based on sclerosing mesenteritis, a disease that causes inflammation of the small intestine.

    Two Lawyers Strike Gold In U.S. Disability System Damian Paletta 2011

  • I'd been snowboarding on the World Cup circuit for a while and was feeling perfectly healthy when the doctors told me I had primary sclerosing cholangitis, or PSC.

    Nikki Stone: Organ Transplant That Led to Olympic Dreams 2010

  • Claire starts to list the possibilities—viruses and cancers and alcohol, toxins and Tylenol, sclerosing ducts and impacted stones—but all the medical words sound coldly clinical, untranslatable even if she knew the Spanish words.

    Healer Carol Wiley Cassella 2010

  • He'd have figured it out, knows Monash Medical Student, just as he diagnosed this week's case of subacute sclerosing pan-encephalitis.

    Grand Rounds, Vol 4, No 42 - The Seinfeld Edition aka TBTAM 2008

  • I can also cause subacute sclerosing pan-encephalitis.

    Measles (Rubeola) virus Emma Lurie 2009

  • I can also cause subacute sclerosing pan-encephalitis.

    Archive 2009-03-01 Emma Lurie 2009

  • We are increasingly persuaded that measuring things in blood many years down the line tells us very little about the initiating events in what is, in effect, a static (non-progressive) encephalopathy unlike, for example, subacute sclerosing panencephalitis, which is a progressive measles encephalopathy.

    On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008

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