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INDURATION

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any pathological hardening or thickening of tissue

Synonyms:

induration; sclerosis

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("induration" is a kind of...):

pathology (any deviation from a healthy or normal condition)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "induration"):

disseminated multiple sclerosis; disseminated sclerosis; MS; multiple sclerosis (a chronic progressive nervous disorder involving loss of myelin sheath around certain nerve fibers)

ALS; amyotrophic lateral sclerosis; Lou Gehrig's disease (thickening of tissue in the motor tracts of the lateral columns and anterior horns of the spinal cord; results in progressive muscle atrophy that starts in the limbs)

arteriolosclerosis (sclerosis of the arterioles)

arterial sclerosis; arteriosclerosis; coronary-artery disease; hardening of the arteries; induration of the arteries (sclerosis of the arterial walls)

osteosclerosis (abnormal hardening or eburnation of bone)

Derivation:

indurate (become hard or harder)

indurate (make hard or harder)

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