The quality of being hard or the process of becoming hard
when a tissue or organ, such as the uterus, becomes hardened, immovable, or fixed; typically caused by diffuse scarring of tissues.
(in'-dur-a-tion) The hardening or lithifiation of a rock or rock material by heat, pressure, or the introduction of cementing material, especially the process by which relatively consolidated rock is made harder or more compact.
hardening or firming of tissue.
any pathological hardening or thickening of tissue
an increase in the fibrous elements in tissue, a hardened mass or formation, which if felt during a DRE is worrisome
Any hardening or thickening of tissue or skin.
a swelling and hardening of soft tissue caused by infiltration of macrophages and CD4 cells. Injection of a substance (e.g., tuberculin PPD) and "reading" of the resulting induration is used to detect previous exposure to an organism, or to gauge the strength of the immune response.
1. The process of becoming extremely firm or hard, or having such physical features. 2. A focus or region of indurated tissue.
Characterized by being hard; an abnormally hard portion of a tissue with respect to the surrounding similar tissue; often used to describe the feel of locally invasive malignant tissue on palpation.
An area of hardened tissue.
Induration refers to the process of hardening.
Induration is skin that feels hard and thickened.
10.398.16 down Becoming hard
The process of hardening. An abnormally hard spot.