English-Thai Dictionary
sclerosis
N การแข็งตัว ของ เนื้อเยื่อ ร่างกาย การ แข็ง ด้าน kan-kang-tua-kong-nuan-yuai-rang-kai
Webster's 1913 Dictionary
SCLEROSIS
Scle *ro "sis, n. Etym: [NL. , fr. Gr. (sklhro `s hard. ]
1. (Med. )
Defn: Induration; hardening; especially, that form of induration produced in an organ by increase of its interstitial connective tissue.
2. (Bot. )
Defn: Hardening of the cell wall by lignification. Cerebro-spinal sclerosis (Med. ), an affection in which patches of hardening, produced by increase of the neuroglia and atrophy of the true nerve tissue, are found scattered throughout the brain and spinal cord. It is associated with complete or partial paralysis, a peculiar jerking tremor of the muscles, headache, and vertigo, and is usually fatal. Called also multiple, disseminated, or insular, sclerosis.
New American Oxford Dictionary
sclerosis
scle ro sis |skləˈrōsis skləˈroʊsəs | ▶noun Medicine 1 abnormal hardening of body tissue. • see multiple sclerosis. 2 excessive resistance to change: the challenge was to avoid institutional sclerosis. ORIGIN late Middle English (originally denoting a hard external tumor ): via medieval Latin from Greek sklērōsis, from sklēroun ‘harden. ’
Oxford Dictionary
sclerosis
sclerosis |sklɪəˈrəʊsɪs, sklə -| ▶noun [ mass noun ] 1 Medicine abnormal hardening of body tissue. • (in full multiple sclerosis ) a chronic, typically progressive disease involving damage to the sheaths of nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord, whose symptoms may include numbness, impairment of speech and of muscular coordination, blurred vision, and severe fatigue. Also called disseminated sclerosis. 2 excessive resistance to change: the challenge was to avoid institutional sclerosis. ORIGIN late Middle English (originally denoting a hard external tumour ): via medieval Latin from Greek sklērōsis, from sklēroun ‘harden ’.
Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary
sclerosis
scle ro sis /skləróʊsəs /名詞 複 -ses /-siːz /C U 〘医 〙(動脈などの )硬化 (症 )(→multiple sclerosis ).scle rot ic /sklərɑ́tɪk |-rɔ́t -/形容詞
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