arterioscleroticadj.n.
/ɑːˌtɪərɪəʊsklᵻˈrɒtɪk/, U.S. /ɑrˈˌtɪrioʊskləˈrɑdɪk/, /ɑrˈˌtɪriəskləˈrɑdɪk/ Medicine.
A. adj.
Of or relating to arteriosclerosis; affected with or characterized by arteriosclerosis.
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atheromatous1877
arteriosclerotic1881
atherosclerotic1908
1881 Med. News & Abstr. 39 228 The arterio-sclerotic form of granular atrophy stands next to this.
1907 W. James Let. 2 Jan. in R. B. Perry Thought & Char. W. James (1935) II. 452 All is well with the James family—all but an increase of my arterio sclerotic symptoms in the last six months.
1949 H. W. C. Vines Green's Man. Pathol. (ed. 17) xxi. 529 The changes in the kidney are so constant that one speaks of the ‘arterio-sclerotic’ or ‘hypertensive’ kidney in reference to the disease as a whole.
1989 W. Weaver tr. U. Eco Foucault's Pendulum xxi. 152 Not only alcoholic, but arteriosclerotic, too.
2007 Northern News (Kirkland Lake, Ont.) (Nexis) 19 Mar. a5 There is ample evidence that arteriosclerotic coronary artery disease has genetic components.
B. n.
A person affected with arteriosclerosis.
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arteriosclerotic1905
atherosclerotic1932
1905 Jrnl. Nerv. & Mental Dis. 32 750 Among those necessarily to be kept abstinent he classes alcoholics, the alcoholic insane, epileptics insane and otherwise, arteriosclerotics.
1928 Amer. Jrnl. Surg. 5 629/1 They may also be observed when patients, particularly the aged and arteriosclerotics, are moved too rapidly from the Trendelenburg to the horizontal position.
1961 Lancet 26 Aug. 492/2 Kinking and lengthening of the iliac arteries in arteriosclerotics.
2005 E. Niedermeyer in E. Niedermeyer & F. H. Lopes da Silva Electroencephalography (ed. 5) xvii. 354/1 Lacunar states..are determined by a special type of pathology that tends to evolve in elderly hypertensive arteriosclerotics.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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