noun
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The sclerotic coat of the eye, cornea.
adjective
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Of or relating to the sclera.
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Having or relating to sclerosis.
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Of or relating to sclerotium.
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Hard and insular.
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sclerotic bureaucracy
Examples of sclerotic in a Sentence
The anterior half of the sclerotic is composed of a ring of some ten to seventeen cartilaginous or bony scales which partly overlap each other.
Another cartilage or ossification, the posterior sclerotic ring, occurs within the walls of the posterior portion of the cup, and surrounds, especially in the Pici and in the Passeres, the entrance of the optic nerve.
Gelatin occurs also in the cornea and the sclerotic coat of the eye; and in fish scales, the latter containing 80% of collagen, and 20% of ichthylepidin, a substance differing from gelatin in giving a wellmarked Millon's reaction.
The cortex, often sharply differentiated into sclerotic and parenchymatous zones, is bordered externally by the persistent leaf-bases.
The irides are of a light orange, and the sclerotic tunics - equivalent to the "white of the eye" in most animals - which in few birds are visible, are in this very conspicuous and of a bright scarlet, giving it an air of great ferocity.
Transverse section of stem, showing the pith containing groups of sclerotic cells, the primary xylem-strands, secondary wood and phloem, pericycle and cortex.
Although not strictly forming part of the skull, allusion should be made here to the ring of sclerotic plates which has been found in many of the Stegocephalia, and which is only found elsewhere in a few Crossopterygian fishes as well as in many reptiles and birds.
A mechanism to enable the instrument to decouple (for e.g., sclerotic scatter) is required.
These sclerotic plaques are the decay in the myelin sheathing of the myelinated axons from distinct regions within the CNS.
Diagnosis Osteoid Osteoma of the Spine Discussion The nidus may be radiolucent or may contain calcifications with variable surrounding sclerotic reaction.
Without firms prepared to innovate and adjust, economies become sclerotic.
The bureaucratic totalitarian system with its sclerotic economy was not attractive to the masses in Western Europe, America and Japan.
X-ray on the right tibia revealed several osteolytic cystic lesions with sclerotic rims.
Three weeks ago the European Commission launched a swathe of legal proceedings aimed at loosening the sclerotic nature of the European internal energy market.