About The Word Induration
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Induration
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What's The Definition Of Induration?
[n] any pathological hardening or thickening of tissue
Synonyms | Synonyms for Induration: sclerosis Related Terms | Find terms related to Induration: armor | callosity | callousness | callus | flintiness | formidable defenses | hard heart | hard shell | hardenedness | hardheartedness | hardness | hardness of heart | heart of stone | imperviousness | insensitiveness | insensitivity | inuredness | obduracy | obdurateness | Philistinism | rhinoceros hide | stoniness | thick skin See Also | ALS | amyotrophic lateral sclerosis | arterial sclerosis | arteriolosclerosis | arteriosclerosis | coronary-artery disease | disseminated multiple sclerosis | disseminated sclerosis | hardening of the arteries | induration of the arteries | Lou Gehrig's disease | MS | multiple sclerosis | osteosclerosis | pathology Induration In Webster's Dictionary \In`du*ra"tion\, n. [Cf. F. induration, L. induratio
hardness of heart.]
1. The act of hardening, or the process of growing hard.
2. State of being indurated, or of having become hard.
3. Hardness of character, manner, sensibility, etc.;
obduracy; stiffness; want of pliancy or feeling.
A certain induration of character had arisen from
long habits of business. --Coleridge.
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