Sclerosis

Not to be confused with Scoliosis.

Sclerosis (also sclerosus in the Latin names of a few disorders) is a hardening of tissue and other anatomical features. It may refer to:

• Sclerosis (medicine), a hardening of tissue
• in zoology, a process which forms sclerites, a hardened exoskeleton
• in botany, a process which hardens plant tissue by adding fibers and sclereids, resulting in sclerenchyma
• in economics, eurosclerosis