induration(n = noun.state) sclerosis - any pathological hardening or thickening of tissue;
is a kind of pathology
has particulars: disseminated multiple sclerosis, disseminated sclerosis, ms, multiple sclerosis, als, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, lou gehrig's disease, arteriolosclerosis, arterial sclerosis, arteriosclerosis, coronary-artery disease, hardening of the arteries, induration of the arteries, osteosclerosis
Derived forms verb indurate3, verb indurate2
1. The act of hardening, or the process of growing hard. [1913 Webster]
2. State of being indurated, or of having become hard. [1913 Webster]
3. Hardness of character, manner, sensibility, etc.; obduracy; stiffness; lack of pliancy or feeling. [1913 Webster]
"A certain induration of character had arisen from long habits of business." [1913 Webster]
N impenitence, irrepentance, recusance, lack of contrition, hardness of heart, seared conscience, induration, obduracy, impenitent, uncontrite, obdurate, hard, hardened, seared, recusant, unrepentant, relentless, remorseless, graceless, shriftless, lost, incorrigible, irreclaimable, unreconstructed, unregenerate, unreformed, unrepented, unreclaimed, unatoned.
N hardness, rigidity, renitence, renitency, inflexibility, temper, callosity, durity, induration, petrifaction, lapidification, lapidescence, vitrification, ossification, crystallization, stone, pebble, flint, marble, rock, fossil, crag, crystal, quartz, granite, adamant, bone, cartilage, hardware, heart of oak, block, board, deal board, iron, steel, cast iron, decarbonized iron, wrought iron, nail, brick, concrete, cement, hard, rigid, stubborn, stiff, firm, starch, starched, stark, unbending, unlimber, unyielding, inflexible, tense, indurate, indurated, gritty, proof, adamant, adamantine, adamantean, concrete, stony, granitic, calculous, lithic, vitreous, horny, corneous, bony, osseous, ossific, cartilaginous, hard as a rock, stiff as buckram, stiff as a poker, stiff as starch, stiff as as board.