sclerosis
Meaning of sclerosis
- abnormal hardening of body tissue.
- excessive resistance to change.
the challenge was to avoid institutional sclerosis
late Middle English (originally denoting a hard external tumour): via medieval Latin from Greek sklērōsis, from sklēroun ‘harden’.
Information about sclerosis
- It is a name.
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Hyphenation of sclerosis
scle-ro-sis
- It consists of 3 syllables and 9 chars.
- sclerosis is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
sclerosis synonyms
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Words that rhyme with sclerosis
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