sclerosis
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
sclerosis /skləˈrəʊsɪs, sklɪə-/
▶noun Medicine
- 1 abnormal hardening of body tissue.
- 2 (in full multiple sclerosis) a chronic, typically progressive disease involving damage to the sheaths of nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord, whose symptoms may include numbness, impairment of speech and muscular coordination, blurred vision, and severe fatigue.
– origin ME: via med. L. from Gk sklērōsis, from sklēroun ‘harden’.
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