sclerotic tissue. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
A sclerotic patient. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Lining the inner surface of the sclerotic is the second coat, the choroid. From Wordnik.com. [A Practical Physiology] Reference
More to the point: literary study may or may not have become "sclerotic" pre-theory, but so what?. From Wordnik.com. [Literary Study] Reference
Who're you calling sclerotic?. From Wordnik.com. [Steven Hill: 5 Myths About "Sick Old Europe"] Reference
I won't use "sclerotic" to refer to a stagnant economy. From Wordnik.com. [New Statesman] Reference
"sclerotic" not conservative, but otherwise he's clearly defined Labour's core values. From Wordnik.com. [Guy Fawkes' blog] Reference
The problem is, it became very sclerotic, very corrupt. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 15, 2007] Reference
No sclerotic state liquor agencies to prod into action. From Wordnik.com. [American Beat: Life Ain't A Cabaret, Old Chum] Reference
These coats are the sclerotic, the choroid, and the retina. From Wordnik.com. [A Practical Physiology] Reference
Its impact: an already sclerotic system has ground to a near halt. From Wordnik.com. [Traveling On The Cheap] Reference
Ed Rendell took on the sclerotic municipal unions of Philadelphia. From Wordnik.com. [City Slickers] Reference
(Argyria Fuchs), especially in the face, beginning first on the sclerotic. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 385, May 19, 1883] Reference
The sclerotic coat is the outside layer and enclosing membrane of the eyeball. From Wordnik.com. [A Practical Physiology] Reference
The bureaucracy was too sclerotic and risk-averse to really go after shadowy terrorists. From Wordnik.com. [The Vietnam Question] Reference
Contrary to expectations, it's forcing sclerotic Old Europe to adapt, not the newcomers. From Wordnik.com. [REPORT CARD ON UNITY] Reference
He favors tax cuts and reform of Italy's baroque electoral and sclerotic regulatory systems. From Wordnik.com. [Italy's 59Th Post-War Try] Reference
My sisters skipped over, having extricated themselves from the sclerotic clutches of their escorts. From Wordnik.com. [Bootstraps] Reference
The national-security bureaucracy, which had grown sclerotic and risk-averse, was jolted by September 11. From Wordnik.com. [How He'll Haunt Us] Reference
And that, unable or unwilling to issue a mea culpa, it is now caught in sclerotic bends of its own making?. From Wordnik.com. [Carla Seaquist: Where Is the Vatican's Outrage About Child Molestation?] Reference
He talked about how the old sclerotic leadership of the past had now been turned into a dynamic new future. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript May 10, 2007] Reference
While the official cause of death was sclerotic myocarditis, it would be simpler to say he died of old age. From Wordnik.com. [To Be a Rockefeller] Reference
In 1993 that culture consisted primarily of sclerotic welfare statism, soaring unemployment and ethnic cleansing. From Wordnik.com. [1993: Nature's Hysterics, And More] Reference
For 24 miserable hours, cars backed up -- and piled up -- in sclerotic masses clogging the narrow mountain valleys. From Wordnik.com. [Remodeling The Slopes] Reference
Famous for running a tight corporate ship, Turner is now boarding the leakiest of boats: the sclerotic United Nations. From Wordnik.com. [Why Ted Gave It Away] Reference
Egypt's judicial system is barely functioning, its press is ill informed and ineffective, its legislature is sclerotic. From Wordnik.com. [MAIL CALL: ARCHEOLOGY OR FAITH?] Reference
Caudillos like Venezuela's Hugo Chávez and Ecuador's Rafael Correa have bucked entrenched but sclerotic party systems. From Wordnik.com. [Chile’s Big Surprise] Reference
But yes, it seems the discourse -- if it's come to this, it seems to me the discourse has become a little calcified and sclerotic. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 19, 2008] Reference
He promised a more engaged and energetic governance: the altruism of youth would be leveraged, sclerotic bureaucracies challenged. From Wordnik.com. [Robert Kennedy's Last Campaign] Reference
Why get closer to a lumbering neighbor like Germany, then growing at a sclerotic 1 percent per year, with 9.5 percent unemployment?. From Wordnik.com. [The European Envy Effect] Reference
Corruption and red tape are rife, and states prop up sclerotic nationalized companies and restrict foreign ownership in many sectors. From Wordnik.com. [... Neither Is the State] Reference
It is conceivable that America's lead, especially over an aging and sclerotic Europe, will actually increase over the next two decades. From Wordnik.com. [The Arrogant Empire] Reference
That sent the message that he wasn't going to get rolled by big labor, which was threatening to turn America into a Euro-sclerotic economy. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 11, 2004] Reference
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