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sclerosis
/skləˈɹoʊ.sɪs/
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What does sclerosis mean?
noun
- The abnormal hardening of body tissues, such as an artery; the appearance of hardenings, indurations, lesions, nodules.
- Inability to create change or excessive resistance to change.
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/skləˈɹoʊ.sɪs/
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Results from what is known as sclerosis, a hardening of the gray matter in the motor centres of the spinal cord.
It will work its way through the vertebrae of the spine and the bones of the skull into the nerve matter of the brain and spinal cord, causing inflammation, excruciating headaches, nervous symptoms, girdle pains, etc. These stages of acute inflammation are followed in a few years by sclerosis (hardening) of nerve matter and blood vessels, resulting in paresis, locomotor ataxy or paralysis agitans.