INDURATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does induration mean? 

• INDURATION (noun)
  The noun INDURATION has 1 sense:

1. any pathological hardening or thickening of tissue

  Familiarity information: INDURATION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INDURATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any pathological hardening or thickening of tissue

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

induration; sclerosis

Hypernyms ("induration" is a kind of...):

pathology (any deviation from a healthy or normal condition)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "induration"):

disseminated multiple sclerosis; disseminated sclerosis; MS; multiple sclerosis (a chronic progressive nervous disorder involving loss of myelin sheath around certain nerve fibers)

ALS; amyotrophic lateral sclerosis; Lou Gehrig's disease (thickening of tissue in the motor tracts of the lateral columns and anterior horns of the spinal cord; results in progressive muscle atrophy that starts in the limbs)

arteriolosclerosis (sclerosis of the arterioles)

arterial sclerosis; arteriosclerosis; coronary-artery disease; hardening of the arteries; induration of the arteries (sclerosis of the arterial walls)

osteosclerosis (abnormal hardening or eburnation of bone)

Derivation:

indurate (become hard or harder)

indurate (make hard or harder)

 Context examples 

Signs and symptoms include induration, erythema, swelling, burning sensation, and pain at the infusion site.

(Infusion Site Extravasation, NCI Thesaurus)

These changes include diffuse erythema, edema, peau d'orange (skin of an orange) appearance, tenderness, induration, warmth, enlargement, and in some cases a palpable mass.

(Inflammatory Breast Carcinoma, NCI Thesaurus)

Clinical manifestations include erythema, marked discomfort, swelling, and induration along the course of the infected vein.

(Infective Phlebitis, NCI Thesaurus/CTCAE)

It is characterized by erythema, pain, swelling, and induration at the catheter insertion site.

(Infective Phlebitis, NCI Thesaurus)

Inflammation and induration of the fascia related to an accumulation of white blood cells, including eosinophils.

(Eosinophilic Fasciitis, NCI Thesaurus)