Definition of scleroses Scleroses
We found 3 definitions of scleroses from 2 different sources.
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What does scleroses mean?
Wiktionary 
- scleroses (Noun)
Plural of sclerosis.
Part of speech
🔤- scleroses, noun, plural of sclerosis.
WordNet
NounPlural: scleroses |
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| sclerosis - any pathological hardening or thickening of tissue | ||
| induration | ||
| pathology the branch of medical science that studies the causes and nature and effects of diseases | ||
| disseminated multiple sclerosis, disseminated sclerosis, multiple sclerosis, ms 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 | ||
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Wiktionary
- sclerosis (Noun)
The abnormal hardening of body tissues, such as an artery.
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- sclerosis (n.)
Induration; hardening; especially, that form of induration produced in an organ by increase of its interstitial connective tissue. - sclerosis (n.)
Hardening of the cell wall by lignification.
Part of speech
🔤- sclerosis, noun, singular of scleroses.
