The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromσκλήρωσις“hardening”
- English todaysclerosis
From Ancient Greek σκλήρωσις (sklḗrōsis, “hardening”), from σκληρόω (sklēróō, “to harden”), from σκληρός (sklērós, “hard”); by surface analysis, sclero- + -osis.
Words from the same roots
Ancient Greekσκλήρωσις all →
phlebosclerotic
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.