a hardening of tissues with loss of elasticity
from the Greek skleros, hard]: Hardening of soft tissues, especially nerves, due to disease.
Areas on the brain, spinal cord, and optic nerves where myelin is damaged and scar tissue forms.
A thickening of bone which occurs under various circumstances .Examples are after bone infection or around the margins of an osteoarthritic joint.
scarring of nerve tissue in areas of demyelination.
abnormal hardening or thickening of tissue.
a hardening of tissue (e.g., liver, artery walls), due to cumulative damage, mineral deposition or other causes.
A hardening of tissue; often occurs in advanced stages of arthritis
Shorthand for osteosclerosis, an abnormal hardening or increased density of bone. [See: Fluoride & Osteosclerosis
A thickening, or hardening of tissues.
A hardening within the nervous system, especially of the brain and spinal cord, resulting from degeneration of nervous elements such as the myelin sheath.
Hardening of tissue. In MS, sclerosis is the body's replacement of lost myelin around CNS nerve axons with scar tissue.
Localized hardening of skin.
Scarring of tissue within the body.
A pathological condition in which a tissue has become hard and which is produced by overgrowth of fibrous tissue and other changes (as in arteriosclerosis).
The morbid hardening of an organ or tissue.
Hardening of tissue due to inflammation
Hardening or scarring of tissue.
A hardening of tissue. May be associated with a disease state and result from inflammation or an overgrowth in other tissue.
A condition characterized by hardening of tissue resulting from any several causes, including inflammation, the deposit of mineral salts, and infiltration of connective tissue fibers.
A hardening and thickening that commonly occurs secondary to tissue inflammation.
Hardened scar-like tissue.
hardening of tissue due to excessive growth of fibrous tissue
A induration or hardening, especially hardening of a part from inflammation and in diseases of the interstitial substance. The term is used chiefly for such a hardening of the nervous system due to hyperplasia of the connective tissue or to designate hardening of the blood vessels.