induration
Americannoun
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the act of indurating.
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the state of being indurated.
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Geology.
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hardening of rock by heat or pressure.
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Pathology.
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a hardening of an area of the body as a reaction to inflammation, hyperemia, or neoplastic infiltration.
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an area or part of the body that has undergone such a reaction.
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Etymology
Origin of induration
1350–1400; Middle English < Late Latin indūrātiōn- (stem of indūrātiō ) a hardening. See indurate, -ion
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The enlargement and induration left after the healing of the abscess require the application of tincture of iodine or of compound iodine ointment to the surface.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
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
In scrofulous children the course may be protracted for several weeks, and in them resolution is occasionally imperfect, a degree of enlargement and induration of one or both parotids remaining for some time.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
With this point in mind Ehrlich has subjected the sputum in emphysema and brown induration of the lungs to exact examination for 20 years.
From Histology of the Blood Normal and Pathological by W. Myers
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