sclerosis

noun

scle·ro·sis | \ sklə-ˈrō-səs

Definition of sclerosis

1 : pathological hardening of tissue especially from overgrowth of fibrous tissue or increase in interstitial tissue also : a disease characterized by sclerosis

2 : an inability or reluctance to adapt or compromise political sclerosis

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Recent Examples on the Web Multiple sclerosis is a central nervous system disease that affects the brain and spinal cord. — Beth Krietsch, SELF, 22 July 2022 Lawmakers would do well to advance policies that would cure the agency's sclerosis. — Sally Pipes, Forbes, 18 July 2022 A year later, scientists reported that pathological TDP-43 was also present in the brains of people with Alzheimer’s disease and hippocampal sclerosis, a disease associated with pathological changes in the hippocampus. — Diana Kwon, Scientific American, 13 July 2022 More widely, the failure will speak to the sclerosis of American governance. — Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic, 15 June 2022 Multiple sclerosis is a potentially disabling disease of the brain and spinal cord. — Ben Thomas | Bthomas@al.com, al, 27 May 2022 Robert Dallek, a historian and biographer of Lyndon B. Johnson, said such sclerosis had ebbed and flowed in the past. — New York Times, 30 May 2022 Multiple sclerosis treatments, which cost between $8,000 and $11,000 in the mid-1990s, averaged $60,000 a year by 2015 and reached $80,000 by 2020. — Billy Kenber, STAT, 14 May 2022 Biogen’s big-selling multiple-sclerosis franchise, which for years had rung up billions of dollars in sales, is aging and facing fierce competition. — Joseph Walker, WSJ, 4 May 2022 See More

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sclerosis

noun

scle·ro·sis | \ sklə-ˈrō-səs

plural scleroses\ -ˌsēz

Medical Definition of sclerosis

1 : a pathological condition in which a tissue has become hard and which is produced by overgrowth of fibrous tissue and other changes (as in arteriosclerosis) or by increase in interstitial tissue and other changes (as in multiple sclerosis)

— called also hardening