Sclerotic

Definitions: Sclerotic

Sclerotic

Adjective

1. Relating to or having sclerosis; hardened; "a sclerotic patient".

2. Of or relating to the sclera of the eyeball; "sclerotic tissue".

Date "sclerotic" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1856. (references)

Domain	Definitions
Health	Pertaining to the outer coat of the eye; the sclera; hard, indurated or sclerosed. (references)
Medicine	1)pertaining to the outer coat of the eye; the sclera;2)hard, indurated or sclerosed. Source: European Union. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonym: Sclerotic

Synonym: sclerosed (adj). (additional references)

Crosswords: Sclerotic

English words defined with "sclerotic": Sclerenchyma, sclerosed, Sclerotal, sclerotic coat, Sclerotic parenchyma, Sclerotical, Sclerotitis, sclerotomy, Sclerous, Suprachoroidal. (references)

Etymologies containing "sclerotic": Sclerotitis. (references)

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

Romanian (sclerotic).

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		In several sclerotic conditions, a systemic disease like lupus or diabetes mellitus is responsible. (references)
		The name tuberous sclerosis comes from the characteristic tuber or root-like growths in the brain, which calcify with age and become hard or sclerotic. (references)
Political Economy	Pakistan	Recent anecdotal reports suggest that this problem may be having a sclerotic impact on the economy. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Sclerotic" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Sclerotic" is used about 5 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
Adjective (general or positive)	100%	5	157,705

Expressions using "sclerotic": sclerotic coat ♦ sclerotic parenchyma. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Language		Translations for "sclerotic"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Arabic		‏متصلب (adamant, hard line, inexorable, inflexible, intransigent, obdurate, obstinate, relentless, stick in the mud, stubborn, uncompromising, wilful, willful), ‏الصلابة (callousness). (various references)

Bulgarian		склеротичен, склерозен, твърд (adamant, adamantine, constant, crusty, decided, determined, dogged, fast, firm, flat, flinty, forceful, gritty, hard, hardhearted, immovable, obstinate, persistent, proof, rigid, rock-ribbed, rocky, sclerous, set, solid, stable, staunch, steadfast, steady, steely, stiff, stout, stringy, strong, sturdy, swerveless, tenacious, tinny, unfaltering, unflinching, unshakable, unshrinking, unswerving, unwavering), втвърден (consolidated, hard, hard set, indurate, sclerous). (various references)

Danish		sclerotisk. (various references)

Dutch		sclerotisch, scleroticus. (various references)

French		sclérosé, scléreux. (various references)

German		sklerotisch. (various references)

Greek		σκληρωτικόσ (hardening). (various references)

Italian		sclerotico, scleroso. (various references)

Pig Latin		eroticsclay

Portuguese		escleroso, esclerótico. (various references)

Romanian		scleroticã (sclera), sclerotic. (various references)

Russian		склеротический. (various references)

Spanish		escleroso (sclerosed, sclerous), esclerótico (sclera). (various references)

Turkish		sklera (sclera), sertleşmiş (sclerous, weather beaten, weather-worn), gözakı (sclera, white of the eye), dokusu sertleşmiş. (various references)

Ukranian		склеротичний, склера (sclera), щільний (air proof, compact, dense, massive, thick, tight, turbid). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "sclerotic": sclerotics. (additional references)
	Words ending with "sclerotic": arteriosclerotic, atherosclerotic. (additional references)
	Words containing "sclerotic": arteriosclerotics. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Sclerotic" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: chlorotic, sceleratus, sclerotised. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-c-e-i-l-o-r-s-t"
	-1 letter: circlets, cloister, coistrel, cortices, costlier.
	-2 letters: cerotic, ciceros, circles, circlet, citoles, clerics, coilers, colters, corslet, costrel, cretics, erotics, estriol, lectors, lictors, loiters, orectic, recoils, relicts, toilers.
	-3 letters: ceorls, cercis, cestoi, cicero, circle, citers, citole, cleric, closer, closet, coiler, colics, colies, colter, corset, cosier, coster, cresol, cretic, erotic, escort, lector, lictor, lister, liters, litres, loiter, lories, oilers, oriels, ostler, recoil, rectos, relics, relict, relist, reoils, scoter, sector, slicer, soccer, sortie, stelic, steric, sterol, tilers, toiler, toiles, tories, trices, triols, triose.
	-4 letters: ceils, celts, ceorl, cerci, ceric, ceros, cesti, cires, cisco, citer, cites, clits, close, clots, coils, coirs, coles, colic, colts, cores, corse, cosec, coset, cosie, cotes, crest, cries, croci, crocs, escot, islet, istle, liers, lirot, liter, litre, lores, loris, loser, lotic, oiler, oleic, oriel, orles, osier, recti, recto, relic, relit, reoil, rices, riels, riles, riots, rites, roils, roles, roset, rotes, rotis, rotls, score, secco, slice, slier, socle, solei, sorel, stile, stoic, stole, store, telic, teloi, telos, tiers, tiler, tiles, tires, tirls, tiros, toile, toils, toles, torcs, tores, toric, torse, torsi, trice, tries, triol, trios, trois.
	-5 letters: ceil, cels, celt, cero, cire, cist, cite, clit, clot, coil, coir, cole, cols, colt, core, cors, cost, cote, cots, cris, croc, eros, erst, etic, ices, ires, isle, leis, lest, lets, lice, lier, lies, lire, list, lite, lits, loci, lore, lose, lost, loti, lots, oils, oles, orcs, ores, orle, orts, otic, recs, reis, rest, rets, rice, riel, rile, riot, rise, rite, rocs, roes, roil, role, rose, rote, roti, rotl, rots, scot, sect, sice, silo, silt, sire, site, slit, sloe, slot, soil, sole, soli, sore, sori, sort, stir, tels, tics, tier, ties, tile, tils, tire, tirl, tiro, toes, toil, tole, torc, tore, tori, tors, trio.
	Words containing the letters "c-c-e-i-l-o-r-s-t"
	+1 letter: sclerotics.
	+2 letters: cholesteric, cliometrics, electronics, isoelectric.
	+3 letters: chocolatiers, crocidolites, exorcistical, narcoleptics, nonelectrics, plutocracies, telocentrics.
	+4 letters: accelerations, calefactories, chalcopyrites, collectorship, commercialist, constructible, conventiclers, counterclaims, cyclodextrins, electrostatic, heterocyclics, isoelectronic, microclimates, microcultures, plantocracies, recollections, reticulocytes, selenocentric.
	+5 letters: cliometricians, clitorectomies, collectorships, commercialists, constructively, electrocutions, electroosmotic, electrostatics, ferroelectrics, microparticles, nonelectronics, petrochemicals, recalculations, recirculations, reconcilements, schlockmeister, stereochemical.
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