Crossword-Solution: SCLEROMA
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Scleroma | n. | Induration of the tissues. See Sclerema, Scleroderma, and Sclerosis. |
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| Hardening of tissues. | 1 answer |
| any small area of abnormally hard tissue, esp in a mucous membrane | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
The anal opening of certain invertebrates and fishes; also,
the external cloacal opening of reptiles, birds, amphibians, and many
fishes.
Hint 2 anagram
NEVT
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Discharge
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Sentences with SCLEROMA (4)
Etym: [Rhino- + scleroma.] (Med.) Defn: A rare disease of the skin, characterized by the development of very hard, more or less flattened, prominences, appearing first upon the nose and subsequently upon the neighboring parts, esp.
The disease called scleroma is a species of scirrhus, most frequently forming about the neck of the womb, and having also some swelling, but less resisting, and attended with moderate pain.
And the swelling and hardness are to be cured by the remedies which we have mentioned for scirrhus and scleroma of the uterus; dropsical effusions by those recommended for dropsy; and hemorrhages by those for the flux.
Uterus, ancient descriptions of, i, 623; abscess of the, 623 et seq.; ulcers of the, 625 et seq.; cancers of the, 627 et seq.; scirrhus and scleroma of the, 629 et seq.; mole of the, see Mole; inflation of the, 632; suffocation of the, 633; prolapsus of the, 638 et seq.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1965).