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sclerosis
sclerosis:
see
skeleton
sclerosis (n.)
"morbid hardening of the tissue," late 14c., from Medieval Latin
sclirosis
"a hardness, hard tumor," from Greek
sklerosis
"hardening," from
skleros
"hard" (see
sclero-
). Figurative use by 1954.