sclerotic
/sklɪəˈrɒtɪk
/ /skləˈrɒtɪk/adjective
1 Medicine Of or having sclerosis.A striking topographic relationship of focal inflammation and sclerotic atrophy was seen in areas with erosion of the epithelium....
- Histologically, the tumor may display solid, papillary, hemorrhagic, and sclerotic areas.
- Most cause lytic lesions with the exception of prostate and thyroid cancer, which cause sclerotic lesions.
2Becoming rigid and unresponsive; losing the ability to adapt: sclerotic management...
- The fact that the government would welcome such politically tendentious rubbish shows how far the sclerotic gestures of the adversary culture have taken over establishment taste.
- In contrast to the ossified and sclerotic humanities, for example, business studies now accounts for about a third of university activity and teaches about half the foreign students.
- The War Department in the 1920s was indeed sclerotic, and Mitchell was indeed a visionary.
3 Anatomy Relating to the sclera.
noun
another term for sclera.The dorsal and ventral sclerotics are the most strongly ossified....
- Most previous authors have referred to these as sclerotics.
