sclerosis

1. Any pathological hardening or thickening of tissue (synset 114133893)
   is a type of: pathology - any deviation from a healthy or normal condition
   subtypes:

   • disseminated multiple sclerosis, disseminated sclerosis, ms, multiple sclerosis - a chronic progressive nervous disorder involving loss of myelin sheath around certain nerve fibers
   • als, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, lou gehrig's disease - thickening of tissue in the motor tracts of the lateral columns and anterior horns of the spinal cord; results in progressive muscle atrophy that starts in the limbs
   • arteriolosclerosis - sclerosis of the arterioles
   • arterial sclerosis, arteriosclerosis, coronary-artery disease, hardening of the arteries, induration of the arteries - sclerosis of the arterial walls
   • osteosclerosis - abnormal hardening or eburnation of bone
   same as: induration

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