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Definition of Scleroderma
1. Noun. An autoimmune disease that affects the blood vessels and connective tissue; fibrous connective tissue is deposited in the skin.
Generic synonyms: Autoimmune Disease, Autoimmune Disorder
Specialized synonyms: Morphea
2. Noun. Genus of poisonous fungi having hard-skinned fruiting bodies: false truffles.
Generic synonyms: Fungus Genus
Group relationships: Family Sclerodermataceae, Sclerodermataceae
Member holonyms: Earthball, False Truffle, Hard-skinned Puffball, Puffball, Scleroderma Aurantium, Scleroderma Citrinum, Scleroderma Flavidium, Star Earthball, Scleroderma Bovista, Smooth Earthball
Definition of Scleroderma
1. n. A disease of adults, characterized by a diffuse rigidity and hardness of the skin.
Definition of Scleroderma
1. Noun. (medicine) A chronic disease characterized by excessive deposits of collagen in the skin or other organs. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Scleroderma
1. [n -MATA or -MAS]
Medical Definition of Scleroderma
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Scleroderma
Literary usage of Scleroderma
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Treatise on diseases of the skin for the use of advanced students and by Henry Weightman Stelwagon (1910)
"The former is the variety usually known as diffuse symmetric scleroderma ...
Duhring maintains that morphea is distinct from scleroderma, and it must be ..."
2. The Principles and Practice of Dermatology by William Allen Pusey (1917)
"As to whether these two forms are distinct affections, there is difference of
opinion. The clinical picture of circumscribed scleroderma or ..."
3. Pathology and treatment of diseases of the skin: For Practitioners and Students by Moriz Kaposi (1895)
"DIFFUSE CONNECTIVE-TISSUE HYPERTROPHIES. scleroderma. ... Subsequently this
cutaneous affection also received the names scleroderma ..."
4. A Practical Treatise on Diseases of the Skin: For the Use of Students and by James Nevins Hyde (1888)
"scleroderma is a chronic affection, characterized by a circumscribed or relatively
diffuse induration, rigidity, fixation, and subsequent atrophy of the ..."
5. Medical Record by George Frederick Shrady, Thomas Lathrop Stedman (1896)
"In some cases of scleroderma there were so many nervous phenomena that they ...
CHARLES L. DANA said the only case of undoubted scleroderma among his ..."
6. Diseases of the Skin by Richard Lightburn Sutton (1919)
"Circumscribed scleroderma, or Morphea.—This type of scleroderma, which is identical
with the keloid of Addison, is characterized by the occurrence of one or ..."
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