Sclerosis

Definition: Sclerosis

Sclerosis

Noun

1. Any pathological hardening or thickening of tissue.

Date "sclerosis" was first used: 1392. (references)

Specialty Definitions: Sclerosis

Domain	Definitions
Food & Agriculture	The hardening of cell walls of wood by lignification. Source: European Union. (references)
Health	A pathological process consisting of hardening or fibrosis of an anatomical structure, often a vessel or a nerve. (references)
Medicine	Hardening of tissue due to inflammation. Source: European Union. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonym: Sclerosis

Synonym: induration (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Sclerosis

English words defined with "sclerosis": amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, arterial sclerosis, arteriolosclerosis, arteriosclerosis ♦ Cerebro-spinal sclerosis, coronary-artery disease ♦ disseminated multiple sclerosis, disseminated sclerosis ♦ Friedreich's ataxia ♦ Gehrig ♦ hardening of the arteries, Henry Louis Gehrig, herediatry spinal ataxia ♦ induration of the arteries ♦ Lou Gehrig ♦ multiple sclerosis ♦ nephroangiosclerosis, nephrosclerosis ♦ retrobulbar neuritis ♦ Scleroma, sclerosed, sclerotic, spastic bladder. (references)

Specialty definitions using "sclerosis": 4-Aminopyridine ♦ Autoimmune Diseases of the Nervous System ♦ Charcot disease, collagen disease ♦ epatite necrotica degli ovini, epatite necrotica infettiva, Evoked Potentials, Auditory, Brain Stem ♦ Glomerulosclerosis, Focal ♦ HLA-DR2 Antigen ♦ infezione da Clostridium novyi o oedematiens, Intracranial Arteriosclerosis ♦ Lou Gehrigs disease ♦ malattia nera ♦ Optic Neuritis ♦ Riluzole ♦ Tuberous Sclerosis. (references)

Etymologies containing "sclerosis": Adenosclerosis ♦ Cardiosclerosis ♦ Osteosclerosis. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Sclerosis

Domain	Title
References	The Official Patient's Sourcebook on Tuberous Sclerosis (reference) (more reference examples)

Books	Multiple Sclerosis, Muscular Dystrophy & Als (Dr. Donsbach Tells You What You Need to Know About) (reference) Alternative Medicine and Multiple Sclerosis (reference) Chlamydia Pneumoniae in Aortic Valve Sclerosis & Thoracic Aortic Disease: Aspects of Pathogenesis & Therapy (Comprehensive Summaries of Uppsala disse (reference) Primary Progressive Multiple Sclerosis (Topics in Neuroscience) (reference) T-Cell Autoimmunity and Multiple Sclerosis (Neuroscience Intelligence Unit 5) (reference) (more book examples)

Periodicals	Real Living With Multiple Sclerosis (reference) (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies	Sit and Be Fit:Multiple Sclerosis (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music	Band Crazy, Vol. 1: A Compilation For Multiple Sclerosis (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Sclerosis

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		Neurologic causes such as multiple sclerosis. (references)
		The disorder is a variant of multiple sclerosis. (references)
		Glomerulosclerosis is scarring (sclerosis) of the glomeruli. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Sclerosis

"Sclerosis" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Sclerosis" is used about 171 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	171	23,814

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: Sclerosis

Expressions using "sclerosis": amyotrophic lateral sclerosis ♦ arterial sclerosis ♦ cause sclerosis ♦ Diffuse Cerebral Sclerosis of Schilder ♦ disseminated multiple sclerosis ♦ disseminated sclerosis ♦ insular sclerosis ♦ multiple disseminated or insular sclerosis ♦ multiple sclerosis ♦ tuberous sclerosis. Additional references.
Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "sclerosis": anti-multiple-sclerosis.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Sclerosis

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
multiple sclerosis	5,193
amyotrophic lateral sclerosis	246
sclerosis	219
tuberous sclerosis	194
lichen sclerosis	167
muscular sclerosis	84
systemic sclerosis	43
primary lateral sclerosis	42
liver sclerosis	40
cause of multiple sclerosis	36
mutiple sclerosis	32
tubular sclerosis	27
type of multiple sclerosis	22
early symptom of multiple sclerosis	21
ms multiple sclerosis	21
relapsing remitting multiple sclerosis	19
arterial sclerosis	17
primary progressive multiple sclerosis	15
national multiple sclerosis	14
sign of multiple sclerosis	14
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Sclerosis

Language		Translations for "sclerosis"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		sklerozë. (various references)

Arabic		‏تصلب الأنسجة رض. (various references)

Bulgarian		склероза, втвърдяване (calcification, concretion, congealment, fixation, induration, reinforcement, rigescence, set). (various references)

Chinese		硬化 (harden, hardened, hardening). (various references)

Czech		skleróza. (various references)

Danish		sklerose, bindevævsforøgelse i væv, hvorved konsistensen bliver fastere (hardening), sklerose, sclerose. (various references)

Dutch		sclerose. (various references)

Farsi		تصلب بافت , سفت شدگی بافتها. (various references)

Finnish		skleroosi, kovettuminen (hardening, induration), kovettuma (callus, induration). (various references)

French		sclérose. (various references)

German		Sklerose (disseminated encephalomyelitis). (various references)

Greek		σκλήρωση. (various references)

Hebrew		�"תקשות (difficulty, hardening, obduracy, ossification). (various references)

Hungarian		szklerózis, elmeszesedés (petrifaction, petrification). (various references)

Italian		sclerosi. (various references)

Japanese Kanji		硬化 (hardening, vulcanization). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		�"うかしょう, �"うか (chrysanthemum, coin, depression, descent, effect, effectiveness, efficacy, engineering course, evaluation, fall, furlough, gelatinization, hardening, high price, landing, leave of absence, loud singing, marriage of an Imperial princess to a subject, merits and demerits, mineralize, overhead structure, public imposts, rating, result, school song, taxes, toilet, vulcanization, Yellow Peril). (various references)

Korean		경�"증. (various references)

Pig Latin		erosissclay

Portuguese		esclerose. (various references)

Romanian		sclerozã. (various references)

Russian		склероз (scleroses). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		skleroza. (various references)

Spanish		esclerosis. (various references)

Swedish		skleros. (various references)

Thai		การแข็งตัวของเนื้อเยื่อร่างกาย. (various references)

Turkish		skleroz, doku sertleşmesi. (various references)

Ukranian		склероз. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Sclerosis

Language	Period	Translations
Greek	700 BCE-300 CE	sklerosis. (various references)
Medieval Latin	700-1500	sclirosis. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Sclerosis

Derivations
	Words ending with "sclerosis": arteriosclerosis, atherosclerosis, otosclerosis. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Sclerosis" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: scerlosis, scerosis, sclerose, sclerosed, sclerosus, sclerotised, sclorosis. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Sclerosis"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "sclerosis" (pronounced sklerō"sus)
8	s k l er ō" s u s	arteriosclerosis, atherosclerosis.
5	-er ō" s u s	cirrhosis, heterosis.
4	-ō" s u s	acidosis, apotheosis, diagnosis, fibrosis, hypnosis, meiosis, misdiagnosis, necrosis, nephrosis, neurofibromatosis, neurosis, prognosis, psychosis, symbiosis, thrombosis, tuberculosis.
3	-s u s	amniocentesis, analysis, antithesis, archdiocese, axis, catharsis, census, colossus, consensus, crisis, dialysis, diocese, electrolysis, Genesis, geotaxis, glacis, homeostasis, hydrolysis, hypothesis, metamorphosis, morphogenesis, Narcissus, nemesis, nexus, organogenesis, photosynthesis, phototaxis, plexus, preadolescence, proboscis, prosthesis, psoriasis, psychoanalysis, psychokinesis, rhesus, synopsis, synthesis, Tarsus, telexes, Texas, thesis, urinalysis, versus.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Sclerosis

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-e-i-l-o-r-s-s-s"
	-1 letter: ossicles, rissoles.
	-2 letters: closers, coilers, cresols, crosses, lessors, lorises, ossicle, recoils, rissole, scissor, seisors, slicers.
	-3 letters: ceorls, closer, closes, coiler, colies, corses, cosier, cosies, cresol, crises, crosse, lessor, lories, losers, losses, oilers, oriels, osiers, recoil, relics, reoils, scores, scries, seisor, slicer, slices, socles, sorels.
	-4 letters: ceils, ceorl, ceros, cires, close, coils, coirs, coles, cores, corse, coses, cosie, cress, cries, cross, isles, liers, loess, lores, loris, loser, loses, oiler, oleic, oriel, orles, osier, relic, reoil, rices, riels, riles, rises, roils, roles, roses, score, sices, silos, sires, sises, slice, slier, sloes, socle, soils, solei, soles, sorel, sores.
	-5 letters: ceil, cels, cero, cess, cire, coil, coir, cole, cols, core, cors, coss, cris, eros, ices, ires, isle, leis, less, lice, lier, lies, lire, loci, lore, lose, loss, oils, oles, orcs, ores, orle, oses, recs, reis, rice, riel, rile, rise, rocs, roes, roil, role, rose, secs, seis, sels, sers, sice, sics, silo, sire, sirs, sloe, soil, sole, soli, sols, sore, sori, sris.
	Words containing the letters "c-e-i-l-o-r-s-s-s"
	+1 letter: cloistress, disclosers.
	+2 letters: disclosures.
	+3 letters: cloistresses, otosclerosis, recessionals.
	+4 letters: cordialnesses, courtlinesses, ludicrousness, processionals.
	+5 letters: chivalrousness, counselorships, cowardlinesses, crossabilities, electroosmosis, forciblenesses, historicalness, ironicalnesses, miraculousness, nondisclosures, overclassifies, perissodactyls, prolificnesses, ridiculousness, sacerdotalisms, sacerdotalists, schoolmistress, scrupulosities, scurrilousness.
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