sclerosis

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Etymology

From Ancient Greek σκλήρωσις (sklḗrōsis, “hardening”), from σκληρόω (sklēróō, “to harden”), from σκληρός (sklērós, “hard”); by surface analysis, sclero- +‎ -osis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /skləˈɹəʊsɪs/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -əʊsɪs

Noun

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.
   • 2025 April 10, Dan Heching, “Eric Dane shares that he has been diagnosed with ALS”, in CNN‎:

     The “Euphoria” and “Grey’s Anatomy” actor announced on Thursday that he has been diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as Lou Gehrig’s Disease.

2. Inability to create change or excessive resistance to change.
   • 2019 December 6, Charles Hugh Smith, Suppressing Dissent Guarantees Disorder and Collapse‎:

     Suppressing dissent dooms the society to sclerosis, decline and collapse.

Derived terms

• acrosclerosis
• adenosclerosis
• amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
• angiosclerosis
• arteriosclerosis
• arthrosclerosis
• atherosclerosis
• cardiosclerosis
• cerebrosclerosis
• craniosclerosis
• dermatosclerosis
• disseminated sclerosis
• encephalosclerosis
• Eurosclerosis
• fibrosclerosis
• glomerulosclerosis
• lateral sclerosis
• lipodermatosclerosis
• multiple cerebral sclerosis
• multiple sclerosis
• myelosclerosis
• myosclerosis
• nephroangiosclerosis
• nephrosclerosis
• osteosclerosis
• otosclerosis
• pachyosteosclerosis
• pansclerosis
• phlebosclerosis
• pseudosclerosis
• sclerosed
• sclerotic (adjective)
• spongiosclerosis
• systemic sclerosis
• tuberous sclerosis

Related terms

• sclera
• sclerosant
• sclerose
• sclerotherapy

Translations

abnormal hardening of body tissues

Afrikaans: please add this translation if you can Albanian: please add this translation if you can Arabic: تَصَلُّب (taṣallub) Armenian: կարծրախտ (hy) (karcraxt) Bulgarian: склероза f (skleroza) Catalan: esclerosi (ca) f Chinese: Mandarin: 硬化症 (yìnghuàzhèng) Czech: skleróza f Danish: sklerose c, sclerose c (informal) Dutch: sclerose (nl) f Estonian: skleroos, kõvastus Finnish: kovettuminen (fi) French: sclérose (fr) f Galician: esclerose (gl) f Georgian: სკლეროზი (sḳlerozi) German: Sklerose f Hungarian: szklerózis (hu), elmeszesedés (hu) Icelandic: hersli n, sigg (is) n Italian: sclerosi (it) f Korean: 경화 (ko) (gyeonghwa), 경화증 (ko) (gyeonghwajeung) Latvian: skleroze f Lithuanian: sklerozė f Luxembourgish: Skleros f Norwegian: Bokmål: sklerose m Nynorsk: sklerose m Occitan: escleròsi f Persian: please add this translation if you can Polish: stwardnienie n, skleroza (pl) f Portuguese: esclerose (pt) f Romanian: scleroză (ro) f Russian: склеро́з (ru) m (skleróz) Slovak: skleróza (sk) f, skostnatenie n Slovene: please add this translation if you can Spanish: esclerosis (es) f Swedish: skleros (sv) c Thai: please add this translation if you can Turkish: skleroz (tr)

Further reading

• “sclerosis”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “sclerosis”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.