induration

in·du·ra·tion  (nd-rshn, -dy-)

n.

1. The quality or condition of being hardened.

2. The act or process of becoming hardened.

3. Pathology The hardening of a normally soft tissue or organ, especially the skin, because of inflammation, infiltration of a neoplasm, or an accumulation of blood.

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induration

1. the process of hardening or being hardened.
2. a hardened mass. — indurative, adj.

See also: Processes

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Noun

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induration - any pathological hardening or thickening of tissue sclerosis disseminated multiple sclerosis, disseminated sclerosis, MS, multiple sclerosis - a chronic progressive nervous disorder involving loss of myelin sheath around certain nerve fibers ALS, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, Lou Gehrig's disease - thickening 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 arteriolosclerosis - sclerosis of the arterioles arterial sclerosis, arteriosclerosis, coronary-artery disease, hardening of the arteries, induration of the arteries - sclerosis of the arterial walls osteosclerosis - abnormal hardening or eburnation of bone pathology - any deviation from a healthy or normal condition