arteriosclerosis

noun

ar·​te·​rio·​scle·​ro·​sis är-ˌtir-ē-ō-sklə-ˈrō-səs How to pronounce arteriosclerosis (audio)
: a chronic disease characterized by abnormal thickening and hardening of the arterial walls with resulting loss of elasticity compare atherosclerosis
arteriosclerotic adjective or noun

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The Roman Holiday star also opened up about the tragedy in a 1987 interview with PEOPLE, citing overwork, arteriosclerosis and a breakup among his son’s troubles. Nicole Briese, People.com, 7 Dec. 2024 The list of ailments shown to have been relieved by therapeutic fasting is long: rheumatism, arthritis, arteriosclerosis, angina, asthma, hypertension, skin diseases, kidney and gallbladder infections, periodontitis, glaucoma and migraines. Bill Prince, theweek, 7 Nov. 2024 Fellow pro wrestler Kohei Suwama suggested to Tokyo Sports on Monday that Yoshie suffered from arteriosclerosis. Ryan Gaydos, Fox News, 12 Mar. 2024 Leonid Brezhnev, the Communist Party’s longtime General Secretary until his death, in 1982, suffered from arteriosclerosis and an alarming dependence on sleeping pills; ordinary Soviets, in the privacy of their kitchens, mocked his inability to speak a clear sentence. David Remnick, The New Yorker, 24 Sep. 2023 See all Example Sentences for arteriosclerosis 

Word History

Etymology

borrowed from French artériosclerose, from artério- arterio- + sclerose sclerosis

Note: The term was introduced by the German-born French physician Jean Frédéric Lobstein (1777-1835) in Traité d'anatomie pathologique, tome second (Paris, 1833), p. 550.

First Known Use

1860, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of arteriosclerosis was in 1860

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“Arteriosclerosis.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/arteriosclerosis. Accessed 24 Dec. 2024.

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arteriosclerosis

noun
ar·​te·​rio·​scle·​ro·​sis är-ˌtir-ē-ō-sklə-ˈrō-səs How to pronounce arteriosclerosis (audio)
: a disease characterized by abnormal thickening and hardening of the walls of the arteries
arteriosclerotic adjective or noun

Medical Definition

arteriosclerosis

noun
ar·​te·​rio·​scle·​ro·​sis är-ˌtir-ē-ō-sklə-ˈrō-səs How to pronounce arteriosclerosis (audio)
plural arterioscleroses -ˌsēz How to pronounce arteriosclerosis (audio)
: a chronic disease characterized by abnormal thickening and hardening of the arterial walls with resulting loss of elasticity see atherosclerosis

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