esclerosis

Definitions of esclerosis
  1. noun
    any pathological hardening or thickening of tissue
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    types:
    esclerosis múltiple
    a chronic progressive nervous disorder involving loss of myelin sheath around certain nerve fibers
    arterioesclerosis, arteriosclerosis
    sclerosis of the arterial walls
    type of:
    patología
    any deviation from a healthy or normal condition
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