Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An abnormally hard patch of body tissue especially in the upper respiratory tract.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Sclerosis; also, sclerodermia or sclerema.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Med.) Induration of the tissues. See
sclerema ,scleroderma , andsclerosis .
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- noun medicine
induration of thetissues - noun medicine
rhinoscleroma
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[New Latin, from Greek sklērōma, hardening, from sklēroun, to harden, from sklēros, hard.]
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From Ancient Greek hard + English -oma.
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