sclerosis

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek σκλήρωσις (sklḗrōsis, “hardening”), from σκληρόω (sklēróō, “to harden”), from σκληρός (sklērós, “hard”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /skləˈɹəʊsɪs/
• 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.
2. Inability to create change or excessive resistance to change.
   • 2019 December 6, Charles Hugh Smith, Suppressing Dissent Guarantees Disorder and Collapse‎^[1]:

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

Derived terms

• adenosclerosis
• amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
• arteriosclerosis
• atherosclerosis
• cardiosclerosis
• disseminated sclerosis
• Eurosclerosis
• fibrosclerosis
• glomerulosclerosis
• lateral sclerosis
• lipodermatosclerosis
• multiple cerebral sclerosis
• multiple sclerosis
• myosclerosis
• nephroangiosclerosis
• nephrosclerosis
• osteosclerosis
• otosclerosis
• pseudosclerosis
• sclerotic
• tuberous sclerosis

 

Related terms

• sclera

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
• French: sclérose (fr) f
• Galician: esclerose (gl) f
• Georgian: სკლეროზი (sḳlerozi)
• German: Sklerose f
• Hungarian: szklerózis (hu), elmeszesedés (hu)
• Icelandic: hersli n, sigg 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: please add this translation if you can
• 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.
• “sclerosis”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.