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n. - Any pathological hardening or thickening of tissue.

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Usage examples (35)
  • LUBLIN: They share the word sclerosis, but nothing else.
  • There is another problem, vastly more important it is what Bright calls the sclerosis of decision making.
  • KING: Even if the mental health problem is a direct result of multiple sclerosis, which is a physical disease, ...
  • (The British physicist Hawking has ALS, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, which is also known as Lou Gehrig's disease.)
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