Arteriosclerosis

Definition: Arteriosclerosis

Arteriosclerosis

Noun

1. Sclerosis of the arterial walls.

Date "arteriosclerosis" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1900. (references)

Specialty Definition: Arteriosclerosis

Domain	Definition
Health	Thickening and loss of elasticity of arterial walls. Atherosclerosis is the most common form of arteriosclerosis and involves lipid deposition and thickening of the intimal cell layers within arteries. Additional forms of arteriosclerosis involve calcification of the media of muscular arteries (Monkeberg medial calcific sclerosis) and thickening of the walls of small arteries or arterioles due to cell proliferation or hyaline deposition (arteriolosclerosis). (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonyms: Arteriosclerosis

Synonyms: arterial sclerosis (n), coronary-artery disease (n), hardening of the arteries (n), induration of the arteries (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Arteriosclerosis

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Disease	Ague, angina pectoris, appendicitis; Asiatic cholera, spasmodic cholera; biliary calculus, kidney stone, black death, bubonic plague, pneumonic plague; blennorrhagia, blennorrhoea; blood poisoning, bloodstroke, bloody flux, brash; breakbone fever, dengue fever, malarial fever, Q-fever; heart attack, cardiac arrest, cardiomyopathy; hardening of the arteries, arteriosclerosis, atherosclerosis; bronchocele, canker rash, cardialgia, carditis, endocarditis; cholera, asphyxia; chlorosis, chorea, cynanche, dartre; enanthem, enanthema; erysipelas; exanthem, exanthema; gallstone, goiter, gonorrhea, green sickness; grip, grippe, influenza, flu; hay fever, heartburn, heaves, rupture, hernia, hemorrhoids, piles, herpes, itch, king's evil, lockjaw; measles, mumps, polio; necrosis, pertussis, phthisis, pneumonia, psora, pyaemia, pyrosis, quinsy, rachitis, ringworm, rubeola, St. Vitus's dance, scabies, scarlatina, scarlet fever, scrofula, seasickness, struma, syntexis, tetanus, tetter, tonsillitis, tonsilitis, tracheocele, trachoma, trismus, varicella, varicosis, variola, water qualm, whooping cough; yellow fever, yellow jack.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Arteriosclerosis

English words defined with "arteriosclerosis": arteriosclerosis obliterans, arteriosclerotic, atherosclerosis ♦ coronary artery disease. (references)

Specialty definitions using "arteriosclerosis": Diabetic Nephropathies ♦ Intracranial Thrombosis ♦ Myocardial Ischemia ♦ Retinal Vein Occlusion ♦ Spinal Cord Ischemia, Spinal Cord Vascular Diseases ♦ Ticlopidine. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Arteriosclerosis" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

Spanish (arteriosclerosis).

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Commercial Usage: Arteriosclerosis

Domain	Title
Books	Arterial lesions and arteriosclerosis (reference) Arterial mesenchyme and arteriosclerosis; [proceedings] (reference) Behavior and Arteriosclerosis (reference) Beyond Cholesterol: Vitamin B-B6-S, Arteriosclerosis and Your Heart (reference) Curese Naturalmente!: Setenta Y Siete Dolencias Comunes Que Son Tratadas De Forma Natural, Incluidos: Artritis, Arteriosclerosis, Bronquitis, cancer (reference) (more book examples)

Periodicals	Arteriosclerosis Thrombosis And Vascular Biology (reference) (more periodical examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Arteriosclerosis

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		Cerebral arteriosclerosis can lead to stroke and brain hemorrhage. (references)
		Treatment for cerebral arteriosclerosis may include medications or surgery. (references)
		These include inflammation and hardening of the arteries (arteriosclerosis). (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Arteriosclerosis

"Arteriosclerosis" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Arteriosclerosis" is used about 12 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%	12	101,599

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

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Expressions: Arteriosclerosis

Expressions using "arteriosclerosis": Arteriosclerosis Obliterans ♦ Coronary Arteriosclerosis ♦ Intracranial Arteriosclerosis. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Arteriosclerosis

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
arteriosclerosis	393
arteriosclerosis symptom	5
arteriosclerosis obliterans	3
arteriosclerosis biology thrombosis vascular	3
athersclerosis arteriosclerosis	3
arteriosclerosis picture	3
arteriosclerosis renal	2
arteriosclerosis treatment	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Arteriosclerosis

Language		Translations for "arteriosclerosis"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Afrikaans		arteriosklerose, aarverkalking. (various references)

Albanian		arteriosklerozë. (various references)

Arabic		‏تصلب الشرايين. (various references)

Bulgarian		артериосклероза. (various references)

Chinese		动脉硬化症. (various references)

Czech		arterioskleróza. (various references)

Danish		arteriosklerose. (various references)

Dutch		arteriosclerose, aderverkalking. (various references)

Esperanto		arteriosklerozo. (various references)

Finnish		suonten kalkkiutuminen. (various references)

French		artériosclérose. (various references)

German		Arterienverkalkung (hardening of the arteries), arteriosklerose. (various references)

Greek		αρτηριοσκλήρωση. (various references)

Hebrew		טרשת �"עורקים. (various references)

Hungarian		érelmeszesedés. (various references)

Indonesian		penyakit urat nadi. (various references)

Italian		arteriosclerosi. (various references)

Japanese Kanji		動脈硬化症 (hardening of the arteries), 動脈硬化 (hardening of the arteries). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		どうみゃく�"うかしょう (hardening of the arteries), どうみゃく�"うか (hardening of the arteries). (various references)

Korean		동맥경�"증. (various references)

Pig Latin		arteriosclerosisay

Portuguese		arteriosclerose. (various references)

Romanian		arteriosclerozã. (various references)

Russian		артериосклероз (hardening of the arteries), артериоклероз. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		arterioskleroza. (various references)

Spanish		arteriosclerosis. (various references)

Swedish		arterioskleros, åderförkalkning. (various references)

Turkish		arterioskleroz, damar sertliği (hardening of the arteries). (various references)

Ukrainian		артеріосклероз. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: Arteriosclerosis

Misspellings
	"Arteriosclerosis" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: artereosclerosis, arterioclerosis, artheriosclerosis, atheroesclerosis. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Arteriosclerosis"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "arteriosclerosis" (pronounced Ärti'rēōsklerō"sus)
9	-ō s k l er ō" s u s	atherosclerosis.
8	-s k l er ō" s u s	sclerosis.
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: Arteriosclerosis

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