"sclerosis" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /skləˈɹəʊsɪs/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-sclerosis.wav Forms: scleroses [plural]
Rhymes: -əʊsɪs Etymology: From Ancient Greek σκλήρωσις (sklḗrōsis, “hardening”), from σκληρόω (sklēróō, “to harden”), from σκληρός (sklērós, “hard”); by surface analysis, sclero- + -osis. Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*(s)kelh₁-}}, {{der|en|grc|σκλήρωσις||hardening}} Ancient Greek σκλήρωσις (sklḗrōsis, “hardening”), {{surf|en|sclero-|-osis|nocap=1}} by surface analysis, sclero- + -osis Head templates: {{en-noun|~|scleroses}} sclerosis (countable and uncountable, plural scleroses)
  1. (pathology) The abnormal hardening of body tissues, such as an artery; the appearance of hardenings, indurations, lesions, nodules. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Pathology Translations (abnormal hardening of body tissues): تَصَلُّب (taṣallub) (Arabic), կարծրախտ (karcraxt) (Armenian), склероза (skleroza) [feminine] (Bulgarian), esclerosi [feminine] (Catalan), 硬化症 (yìnghuàzhèng) (Chinese Mandarin), skleróza [feminine] (Czech), sklerose [common-gender] (Danish), sclerose [common-gender, informal] (Danish), sclerose [feminine] (Dutch), skleroos (Estonian), kõvastus (Estonian), kovettuminen (Finnish), sclérose [feminine] (French), esclerose [feminine] (Galician), სკლეროზი (sḳlerozi) (Georgian), Sklerose [feminine] (German), szklerózis (Hungarian), elmeszesedés (Hungarian), hersli [neuter] (Icelandic), sigg [neuter] (Icelandic), sclerosi [feminine] (Italian), 경화 (gyeonghwa) (Korean), 경화증 (gyeonghwajeung) (Korean), skleroze [feminine] (Latvian), sklerozė [feminine] (Lithuanian), Skleros [feminine] (Luxembourgish), sklerose [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), sklerose [masculine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), escleròsi [feminine] (Occitan), stwardnienie [neuter] (Polish), skleroza [feminine] (Polish), esclerose [feminine] (Portuguese), scleroză [feminine] (Romanian), склеро́з (skleróz) [masculine] (Russian), skleróza [feminine] (Slovak), skostnatenie [neuter] (Slovak), esclerosis [feminine] (Spanish), skleros [common-gender] (Swedish), skleroz (Turkish)
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  2. Inability to create change or excessive resistance to change. Tags: countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-sclerosis-en-noun-5RTRMibd
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: sclera, sclerosant, sclerose, sclerotherapy

Inflected forms

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      "code": "hu",
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      "sense": "abnormal hardening of body tissues",
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      "code": "is",
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      "sense": "abnormal hardening of body tissues",
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      "code": "is",
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      "code": "it",
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      "code": "nn",
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      "code": "oc",
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      "code": "sv",
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