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Induration

noun
1.
Any pathological hardening or thickening of tissue.  Synonym: sclerosis.



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"Induration" Quotes from Famous Books



... bent to the right, the nervous membranes on the left were excessively stretched and irritated; that this cause extended by degrees to the spinal marrow, which being thereby compressed, brought on the paralytic symptoms, not only of the left arm, but at last in some measure also of the right. This induration seems to have been occasioned by the constant afflux of the nutritive juices, which were stopt at that place, and deprived of their most liquid parts; the grosser ones being unable to spread in the boney cavity, by which they were confined, could only acquire a greater ...
— An Essay on the Shaking Palsy • James Parkinson



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