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sclerosis

sclerosis

27 8.3
A change in body tissue that makes it harder or less flexible
  • noun
  • /skləˈroʊsɪs/
  • Specialized
translation icon : esclerosis
  • So multiple sclerosis is an autoimmune disease that in which your body attacks your nervous system.
  • multiple sclerosis
  • amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
  • lateral sclerosis

There's a case study that just came out on ALS, amyotropic lateral sclerosis or Lou Gehrig's disease.

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Examples

  • Clinical patterns of multiple sclerosis have been defined by international consensus.

    Academic text (2002)
  • Um, seven months after we were married, we found out that I had multiple sclerosis.

  • My mom has a disease called multiple sclerosis and one of the side effects is depression.

  • Later, she told me that when she was six, her father developed multiple sclerosis and needed a wheelchair.

    Fiction book (1991)
  • My wife has multiple sclerosis and can't even walk half the time without a cane.

  • Mrs. X suffers from end-stage multiple sclerosis and can no longer move either leg or her left arm.

    Academic text (2008)
  • It turns out the incidence of depression as a comorbidity in multiple sclerosis is enormous.

  • I have multiple sclerosis, or I have rheumatoid arthritis, or I have ADHD or I have depression or I have addiction.

  • The practice nurse is likely to see patients with Parkinson's disease, multiple sclerosis, epilepsy, motor neurone disease, and dementia.

    Academic text (2011)
  • Many people with sclerosis experience varying degrees of mobility loss over time.

Synonyms

hardening
vssclerosis
  • Specialized
3 7.5

A medical problem when body tissue becomes thick and less flexible

is the specialized pathological term for tissue firming from inflammation
induration
vssclerosis
  • Specialized
9.9

A hard area under the skin that forms after infection or injury

is the general pathological term for the same tissue change

Compounds

multiple sclerosis
  • Specialized
21 5.1

A long-term disease that damages the covering of nerves in the brain and spinal cord, causing weakness and vision problems

1 6.8

A disease that slowly destroys nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord that control muscles

arterial sclerosis
  • Specialized
1 5.6

Hardening and thickening of artery walls that reduces blood flow from the heart

A long-term disease of the nerves that causes patches of damage to their protective covering often causing numbness and weakness

A long-term disease that damages nerves in the brain and spinal cord

How Hard

ossification
  • Specialized
1 8.8
calcification
  • Specialized
3 7.1
sclerosis
  • Specialized
27 8.3
induration
  • Specialized
9.9
thickening
4 4.6

Surface Forms

sclerosis singular
scleroses plural

Morphology

sclerosis = scler + osis

Although analyzable into the combining form 'scler-' (hard) + '-osis' (condition), these Greek combining forms are not productive or familiar to an average B1 learner, so the meaning 'hardening' is not reliably derivable.

Etymology

The word sclerosis comes from the Greek root skleros, which means 'hard'. It describes when body tissue becomes hard or thick, so that's why sclerosis means a 'hardening' of tissue.