| 单词 | sclerosis |
| 释义 | sclerosis (once / 12148 pages) n Someone is diagnosed with the condition sclerosis when a part of their body becomes unusually hardened. A diet that's too high in cholesterol can cause sclerosis of the arteries. In many cases of sclerosis, the stiffening of tissue in organs, nerves, or arteries happens when it's gradually replaced with harder connective tissue. One of the most common forms of sclerosis is called multiple sclerosis, or MS. In this disorder, nerve cells in the spinal cord and brain are affected. Eventually patients with multiple sclerosis experience lack of coordination, numbness, and other symptoms. The Greek root is skleros, or "hard." WORD FAMILYsclerosis USAGE EXAMPLESThe former is prescribed for the painful muscle spasms that occur in multiple sclerosis, while the latter is aimed at childhood seizures. Washington Post(Dec 29, 2016) Arianna suffers from a neuromuscular disease similar to childhood Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis or Lou Gehrig’s disease. Washington Times(Jan 02, 2017) The company’s best-selling multiple sclerosis Tecfidera faces new competition and challenges to key patents. Wall Street Journal(Dec 27, 2016) n any pathological hardening or thickening of tissue Syn|Hypo|Hyper induration MS, disseminated multiple sclerosis, disseminated sclerosis, multiple sclerosis a chronic progressive nervous disorder involving loss of myelin sheath around certain nerve fibers ALS, Lou Gehrig's disease, amyotrophic lateral sclerosisthickening of tissue in the motor tracts of the lateral columns and anterior horns of the spinal cord; results in progressive muscle atrophy that starts in the limbs arteriolosclerosissclerosis of the arterioles arterial sclerosis, arteriosclerosis, coronary-artery disease, hardening of the arteries, induration of the arteriessclerosis of the arterial walls osteosclerosisabnormal hardening or eburnation of bone atherosclerosis, coronary artery diseasea stage of arteriosclerosis involving fatty deposits (atheromas) inside the arterial walls, thus narrowing the arteries arteriosclerosis obliteransa stage of arteriosclerosis involving closure of blood vessels pathology any deviation from a healthy or normal condition |
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