a hardening of tissue (e g , liver, artery walls), due to cumulative damage, mineral deposition or other causes
Sclerosis is a medical condition in which a part inside your body becomes hard. see also multiple sclerosis. a disease that causes an organ or soft part of your body to become hard multiple sclerosis (sklerosis , from skleros ). progressive systemic sclerosis amyotrophic lateral sclerosis multiple sclerosis
Induration; hardening; especially, that form of induration produced in an organ by increase of its interstitial connective tissue
{i} abnormal hardening of body tissue (Medicine); hardening of plant tissues or cell walls (Botany)
hardening of tissue In MS, sclerosis is the body's replacement of lost myelin around CNS nerve axons with scar tissue
A hardening within the nervous system, especially of the brain and spinal cord, resulting from degeneration of nervous elements such as the myelin sheath