induration

American  

[in-doo-rey-shuhn, -dyoo-] / ˌɪn dʊˈreɪ ʃən, -djʊ- /

noun

1. the act of indurating.

2. the state of being indurated.

3. Geology.

   1. lithification.

   2. hardening of rock by heat or pressure.

4. Pathology.

   1. a hardening of an area of the body as a reaction to inflammation, hyperemia, or neoplastic infiltration.

   2. an area or part of the body that has undergone such a reaction.

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Other Word Forms

• indurative
  adjective
• nonindurative
  adjective
• unindurative
  adjective

Etymology

Origin of induration

1350–1400; Middle English < Late Latin indūrātiōn- (stem of indūrātiō ) a hardening. See indurate, -ion

Example Sentences

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induration

He thought he had got very hard indeed, and was even willing to invite a knock or two, to test his induration.

From The Prisoner by Alice Brown

The induration of exposure and the tightening lines of hunger sharpened and marred a countenance which a happier fortune would have kept even comely.

From Holiday Tales Christmas in the Adirondacks by W. H. H. (William Henry Harrison) Murray

The tissue-changes of diseases existing prior to the attack of influenza, such as old consolidations, tubercle, brown induration, emphysema, and so forth, are of course frequently discovered.

From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various

Old stagers who have been impressed now by this, now by that, speech, writing, or personal persuasion, have suffered a certain wholesome induration.

From The Faith Doctor A Story of New York by Edward Eggleston

Yet this is the result of paralysis and not of induration of the feces, as often shown by the semiliquid, pultaceous condition of the contents after death.

From Special Report on Diseases of Cattle by United States. Bureau of Animal Industry