sclerogenous
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Characterized by or causing a hardening of tissue.
Example Sentences
- "sclerogenous cell"
- "Their centre is porous, as may be seen if the colouring matter with which they are usually filled be removed, the pores pasing through the very thick layers of sclerogenous deposits, and communicating with the contiguous cells."
- "In the outermost rows of this zone are a large number of sclerogenous cells, forming isolated groups; these occur here and there, but less numerously, in the remainder of the zone."
- "In a powder which should contain only the foregoing histological elements, any admixture of mineral matters, starches or starch-bearing tissues, sclerogenous or libriform tissues , epidermal tissues bearing hairs or glands, acicular raphides and most crystal-bearing tissues, should be distinguished without much difficulty."
- "sclerogenous hepatitis"
- "This method, founded as everyone knows upon the irritant and sclerogenous properties of zinc chlorid, presents the inconvenience of being applicable only to superficial tumors and may set up lesions from irritation more or less distant from the cancer area"
Etymology
From sclero- + -genous.
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
more sclerogenous (comparative)
most sclerogenous (superlative)