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How to use sclerosis in a sentence

14 example sentences · noun

Sclerosis means the abnormal hardening of body tissues, such as an artery; the appearance of hardenings, indurations, lesions, nodules. Example: “John is a person with multiple sclerosis.”

Examples of sclerosis by meaning

nounThe abnormal hardening of body tissues, such as an artery; the appearance of hardenings, indurations, lesions, nodules.

  • The “Euphoria” and “Grey’s Anatomy” actor announced on Thursday that he has been diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as Lou Gehrig’s Disease.2025 April 10, Dan Heching, “Eric Dane shares that he has been diagnosed with ALS”, in CNN

nounInability to create change or excessive resistance to change.

  • Suppressing dissent dooms the society to sclerosis, decline and collapse.2019 December 6, Charles Hugh Smith, Suppressing Dissent Guarantees Disorder and Collapse

More sentences with sclerosis

  • John is a person with multiple sclerosis.From the entry with
  • Multiple sclerosis is a neuromuscular disease.From the entry neuromuscular
  • LATE neuropathological change (LATE-NC) is defined by a stereotypical TDP-43 proteinopathy in older adults, with or without coexisting hippocampal sclerosis pathology.2019 June, Peter T Nelson et al., “Limbic-predominant age-related TDP-43 encephalopathy (LATE): consensus working group report”, in Brain…. From the entry late
  • Hippocampal sclerosis was less common in the patients with IED.2003, Randolph B. Schiffer et al., Neuropsychiatry, 2nd edition, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, →ISBN, page 1109. From the entry IED
  • Charcot praised Duchenne's work on tabes, and gave the first description of sclerosis and the peroneal type of muscular atrophy.1997, Roy Porter, The Greatest Benefit to Mankind, Folio Society, published 2016, page 526. From the entry peroneal
  • Apart from meals, it is a destroyer of arteries and a productor of sclerosis of the connective tissues throughout the body.1903, Proceedings of the Annual Sessions of the National Fraternal Congress, page 174. From the entry productor
  • Another marijuana-based drug, nabiximols (Sativex), is available in Canada and several European countries to treat spasticity and nerve pain in patients with multiple sclerosis.2021 March 8, Jane E. Brody, “Medical Marijuana Is Not Regulated as Most Medicines Are”, in The New York Times. From the entry nabiximols
  • Another drug, clofazimine, used more than a century ago to treat leprosy, may be effective against autoimmune disorders like multiple sclerosis and psoriasis.2009 April 28, Kate Murphy, “With Aid of Drug Library, New Remedies From Old”, in New York Times. From the entry clofazimine
  • A low rate of arterial sclerosis among the people of southern France, where red rather than white wine is the preferred table drink.1994, Waterloo Region Record. From the entry table drink
  • It is reported that MRP8 produced by infiltrating macrophages might exert glucolipotoxic effects upon diabetic glomeruli, potentially leading to mesangial expansion, podocyte injury, glomerular sclerosis and albuminuria.2015 November 26, “An Atherogenic Paigen-Diet Aggravates Nephropathy in Type 2 Diabetic OLETF Rats”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI. From the entry glucolipotoxic
  • As the papilloma ages, there is an increase in stromal fibroses and clods of calcium deposit as well as scleroses with adenose epithelial patterns at the stalk.1991, Volker Barth, Atlas of Breast Disease, page 78. From the entry adenose
  • This sclerosis of the packing substance of the right hemisphere impairing its trophesial influence, resulted in arrestment of development of the opposite side of the body.1969, Journal of Anatomy - Volume 7, page 265. From the entry trophesial

Meaning of sclerosis

  1. noun The abnormal hardening of body tissues, such as an artery; the appearance of hardenings, indurations, lesions, nodules.
  2. noun Inability to create change or excessive resistance to change.

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Questions about sclerosis in a sentence

How do you use sclerosis in a sentence?
Sclerosis is used as a noun. For example: “John is a person with multiple sclerosis.”
What is a short sentence with sclerosis?
“Multiple sclerosis is a neuromuscular disease.”
What does sclerosis mean?
Sclerosis means the abnormal hardening of body tissues, such as an artery; the appearance of hardenings, indurations, lesions, nodules.

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