ARTERIOSCLEROSIS (arterioscleroses)

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IPA (US):

Irregular inflected form: arterioscleroses   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does arteriosclerosis mean? 

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

1. sclerosis of the arterial walls

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• ARTERIOSCLEROSIS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Sclerosis of the arterial walls

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

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

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

induration; sclerosis (any pathological hardening or thickening of tissue)

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

atherosclerosis; coronary artery disease (a stage of arteriosclerosis involving fatty deposits (atheromas) inside the arterial walls, thus narrowing the arteries)

arteriosclerosis obliterans (a stage of arteriosclerosis involving closure of blood vessels)

Derivation:

arteriosclerotic (affected by arteriosclerosis)

 Context examples 

Also called: Coronary Arteriosclerosis, Arteriosclerosis, Coronary, Atherosclerosis, Coronary, CAD, Coronary arteriosclerosis, Coronary atherosclerosis

(Coronary Artery Disease, NIH: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute)

Atherosclerosis is the most common form of arteriosclerosis and involves lipid deposition and thickening of the intimal cell layers within arteries.

(Arteriosclerosis, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

This signal transduction is impaired during vessel disease (arteriosclerosis) and injury, inflammation, or hemodynamic disturbances (hypertension).

(Ion Channels in Vascular Endothelium Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

Additional forms of arteriosclerosis involve calcification of the media of muscular arteries (Monkeberg medial calcific sclerosis) and thickening of the walls of small arteries or arterioles due to cell proliferation or hyaline deposition (arteriolosclerosis).

(Arteriosclerosis, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)