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sclerosis [σκλήρωσις] 1 (med.) hardening, induration; b (of the liver); c (fig., of the heart). in gibbis ‥ humores frigidi ‥in sclirosim, id est duriciam, sepius commutantur Bart. Angl. IV 4; splenem indurat et sclirosim parit Gilb. I 53. 1; ne in sclirosim per desiccantia convertatur Ib. IV 203. 2; sclirosis a scliron quod est durum Alph. 173.  b hepatis ‥ duritia, quam physici sclirosim appellant, manui, si forte apponeretur, lapidis instar offerebat Ben. Pet. Mir. Thom. I 15.  c numquid vel sic ‥ sclirosis pectoris indurati aut tumor ‥ potuit emolliri? J. Sal. Pol. 463D. 2 hard external tumour. tumor ‥ triplici de causa provenit. ‥ quandoque humor illic discurrit et vertitur in clirosim Quaest. Salern. B 86; ex melancholia fit apostema et si materia tota fuerit extra fit sclirosis Bart. Angl. VII 59; tunc fit sclirosis, i. apostema durum Gad. 24v. 2; durities vel sclirosis est apostema quietum sedatum destruens sensum et permanens in membro in eodem statu, cum quo non est dolor Ib. 25. 1. 3 (fig., of the mind or feelings) insensitivity. verecundor propter mei / sensus scabri sclerosim Walt. Wimb. Virgo 133.

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