How to Use sclerosis in a Sentence

sclerosis

noun
  • Multiple sclerosis might arise not because of the virus but because of the body’s response to it.
    — Gina Kolata, New York Times, 13 Jan. 2022
  • Lawmakers would do well to advance policies that would cure the agency's sclerosis.
    — Sally Pipes, Forbes, 18 July 2022
  • Multiple sclerosis can start with mild symptoms, which may then ebb and flow as the disease progresses.
    — Sarah Jacob, SELF, 10 Aug. 2021
  • The city decided to solve this sclerosis by banning all street parking in central downtown.
    — Los Angeles Times, 24 Aug. 2021
  • About one-third of people with type 1 diabetes have digital sclerosis.
    — Barbie Cervoni, Ms, Rd, Cdces, Cdn, Health, 18 Oct. 2023
  • Multiple sclerosis is a central nervous system disease that affects the brain and spinal cord.
    — Beth Krietsch, SELF, 22 July 2022
  • There is a great deal of painstaking academic work exploring the reasons for Brito-sclerosis.
    — The Economist, 31 Aug. 2017
  • The medicine is the gold standard for treating tuberous sclerosis patients who develop epilepsy.
    — Jennifer Couzin-Frankel, Science | AAAS, 12 Dec. 2019
  • So there is a kind of sclerosis of the economy at the top and fewer and fewer corporate structures controlling more and more.
    — Rebecca Traister, Daily Intelligencer, 1 Feb. 2018
  • Multiple sclerosis is a potentially disabling disease of the brain and spinal cord.
    — Ben Thomas | [email protected], al, 27 May 2022
  • His wife, Jane, said the cause was primary lateral sclerosis, which causes nerve cells in the brain that control movement to fail.
    — New York Times, 7 Apr. 2022
  • Digital sclerosis most commonly develops on the backs of your hands but may occur on the forehead, feet, and fingers.
    — Barbie Cervoni, Ms, Rd, Cdces, Cdn, Health, 18 Oct. 2023
  • European countries have strived for years to shed sclerosis from government-centrist policies.
    — Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 May 2021
  • More widely, the failure will speak to the sclerosis of American governance.
    — Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic, 15 June 2022
  • The nerves develop scars or sclerotic lesions (sclerosis is Greek for hard) in the aftermath of such attacks.
    — Bret Stetka, Scientific American, 18 June 2015
  • Institutional sclerosis hinders attempts to lure the killer out of hiding.
    — Los Angeles Times, 16 Aug. 2019
  • Tuberous sclerosis complex causes benign tumors in the brain and elsewhere, and epilepsy in more than 80% of patients.
    — Jennifer Couzin-Frankel, Science | AAAS, 12 Dec. 2019
  • Over the course of a lifetime, one person in about 400 is likely to develop it, a risk not unlike that of multiple sclerosis.
    — Jane E. Brody, New York Times, 29 May 2017
  • Whether visionary or naïve, Suarez is offering an escape from the sclerosis of America’s big cities.
    — Daniel Tenreiro, National Review, 28 Dec. 2020
  • Multiple sclerosis is a chronic disease of the brain and spinal cord in which the body’s immune system attacks the protective sheath covering nerve fibers.
    — Jonathan Saltzman, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Dec. 2022
  • Multiple sclerosis is a disease in which the coating of nerve cells, called myelin, is destroyed by the body’s immune and inflammatory systems.
    — Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 7 Feb. 2022
  • Multiple sclerosis is a progressive condition that affects the brain and spinal cord (the central nervous system).
    — Sara Gaynes Levy, SELF, 26 Oct. 2021
  • Her devotion to medicine and saving the sick stems from her sister dying from stomach cancer and her mother succumbing to the ravages of systemic sclerosis.
    — Bill Rankin, ajc, 19 Mar. 2020
  • The myositis and sclerosis patients, who had shorter-term follow-up (usually about three to six months but up to a year) saw their symptoms significantly lessen.
    — Theresa Gaffney, STAT, 21 Feb. 2024
  • Martin described the case of one patient, a licensed practical nurse in her mid-30s who was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis.
    — Michelle Andrews, Kaiser Health News, 6 June 2017
  • Multiple sclerosis is a disease that affects the central nervous system — the brain and spinal cord — and can cause problems with muscle control and strength, vision, balance, feeling and thinking.
    — Vanessa Etienne, Peoplemag, 4 Oct. 2022
  • One of those successes arose in San Diego, a drug from the biotech company Receptos for relapsing multiple sclerosis.
    — Bradley J. Fikes, sandiegouniontribune.com, 18 May 2017
  • Yet political and bureaucratic sclerosis, combined with an unbalanced statist economy, ultimately led to its demise.
    — Zongyuan Zoe Liu, Foreign Affairs, 16 Dec. 2025
  • Multiple sclerosis, a chronic disease of the central nervous system, could be caused by infection from the Epstein-Barr virus, a common herpes virus, according to a new study.
    — Marina Pitofsky, USA TODAY, 14 Jan. 2022
  • Angie Sinyard’s six-year-old daughter, Sophia Grace, has tuberous sclerosis, a genetic disorder that causes tumors in the brain, eyes, heart, kidneys, skin and lungs.
    — Southern Living, 1 May 2017

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