Sclerosis — or sclerotization is a hardening of tissue and other anatomical featuresIn medicine*Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis sometimes known as Lou Gehrig s disease, a progressive, incurable, usually fatal disease of motor neurons. Scientist Stephen Hawking … Wikipedia
Sclerosis — Scle*ro sis, n. [NL., fr. Gr. (??, fr. sklhro s hard.] 1. (Med.) Induration; hardening; especially, that form of induration produced in an organ by increase of its interstitial connective tissue. [1913 Webster] 2. (Bot.) Hardening of the cell… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
sclerosis — ► NOUN Medicine 1) abnormal hardening of body tissue. 2) (in full multiple sclerosis) a chronic, typically progressive disease involving damage to the sheaths of nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord. ORIGIN Greek skl r sis, from skl roun… … English terms dictionary
Sclerōsis — (gr.), so v.w. Scirrhoma … Pierer's Universal-Lexikon
Sclerosis — vgl. Sklerose … Das Wörterbuch medizinischer Fachausdrücke
sclerosis — morbid hardening of the tissue, late 14c., from M.L. sclirosis a hardness, hard tumor, from Gk. sklerosis hardening, from skleros hard, related to skellein to dry up, parch, from PIE *skle ro , from root *skele to parch, wither … Etymology dictionary
sclerosis — [skli rō′sis] n. pl. scleroses [skli rō′sēz΄] [ME sclirosis < ML < Gr sklērōsis, a hardening < sklēros, hard: see SCLERA] 1. Bot. a hardening of the cell wall of a plant, usually by an increase of lignin 2. Med. a) an abnormal hardening… … English World dictionary
sclerosis — 1. SYN: induration (2). 2. In neuropathy, induration of nervous and other structures by a hyperplasia of the interstitial fibrous or glial connective tissue. [G. sklerosis, hardness] Alzheimer s … Medical dictionary
sclerosis — sclerosal, adj. /skli roh sis/, n., pl. scleroses / seez/. 1. Pathol. a hardening or induration of a tissue or part, or an increase of connective tissue or the like at the expense of more active tissue. 2. Bot. a hardening of a tissue or cell… … Universalium
sclerosis — noun Etymology: Middle English sclirosis tumor, from Medieval Latin, from Greek sklērōsis hardening, from sklēroun to harden, from sklēros Date: 1846 1. pathological hardening of tissue especially from overgrowth of fibrous tissue or increase in… … New Collegiate Dictionary
