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What (who) is sclerosis - definition
WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
Sclerotic; Sclerotize; Sclerotized; Sclerosis (disambiguation); Sclerotal; Sclerosus
sclerosis
n. multiple sclerosis
Sclerosis
·noun Hardening of the cell wall by lignification.
II. Sclerosis ·noun Induration; hardening; especially, that form of induration produced in an organ by increase of its interstitial connective tissue.
sclerosis
[skl?'r??s?s, skl??-]
¦ noun Medicine
1. abnormal hardening of body tissue.
2. (in full multiple sclerosis) a chronic, typically progressive disease involving damage to the sheaths of nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord, whose symptoms may include numbness, impairment of speech and muscular coordination, blurred vision, and severe fatigue.
Origin
ME: via med. L. from Gk sklerosis, from skleroun 'harden'.
Wikipedia
Sclerosis
Sclerosis (also sclerosus in the Latin names of a few disorders) is a hardening of tissue and other anatomical features; it may refer to:
- Sclerosis (medicine), a hardening of tissue
- in zoology, a process which hardens forms sclerites, a hardened exoskeleton
- in botany, a process which hardens plant tissue by adding fibers and sclereids, resulting in sclerenchyma
- In economics, see: Eurosclerosis
Examples of use of sclerosis
1. Lady Rifkind suffers from multiple sclerosis and is patron of the Multiple Sclerosis Trust.
2. Teva Pharmaceutical Industries says its multiple sclerosis drug Copaxone has proved effective in treating patients with a clinically isolated syndrome suggestive of multiple sclerosis.
3. Doctors diagnosed multiple sclerosis around Thanksgiving 1''8.
4. She was diagnosed six years ago with multiple sclerosis.
5. CROSSVILLE, Tenn. –– Multiple sclerosis has Paul House in a wheelchair.