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• 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 — n. hardening of tissue, usually due to scarring (fibrosis) after inflammation or to ageing. It can affect the lateral columns of the spinal cord and the medulla of the brain (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis or Lou Gehrig s disease), causing… …   The new mediacal dictionary

• 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