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9 words match “INDURATION”

INDURATION n. 3 definitions
er, manner, sensibility, etc.; obduracy; stiffness; want of pliancy or feeling. A certain induration of character had arisen from long habits of business. Coleridge.
CARDIOSCLEROSIS n.
Induration of the heart, caused by development of fibrous tissue in the cardiac muscle.
CONCRETION n.
le of solid matter formed by growing together, by congelation, condensation, coagulation, induration, etc.; a clot; a lump; a calculus. Accidental ossifications or deposits of phosphates of lime in certain organs . . . are called osseous concretions. Dunglison.
GLANDERS n.
racterized by a constant discharge of sticky matter from the nose, and an enlargement and induration of the glands beneath and within the lower jaw. It may transmitted to dogs, goats, sheep, and to human beings.
SCIRRHOSITY n.
A morbid induration, as of a gland; stste of being scirrhous.
SCLEREMA n.
Induration of the cellular tissue. Sclerema of adults. See Scleroderma. -- Sclerema neonatorum ( Etym: [NL., of the newborn], an affection characterized by a peculiar hardening and rigidity of the cutaneous and subcutaneous tissues in the newly born. It is usually fatal. Called also skinbound disease.…
SCLERIASIS n. 2 definitions
A morbid induration of the edge of the eyelid.
SCLEROMA n.
Induration of the tissues. See Sclerma, Scleroderma, and Sclerosis.
SCLEROSIS n.
Induration; hardening; especially, that form of induration produced in an organ by increase of its interstitial connective tissue.