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When tissue forgets how to bend and decides to become a wall instead.
means An abnormal hardening of body tissue (like arteries or nerve coverings) that stiffens what should stay supple, impairing its function.
from From Greek sklerosis, 'hardening,' rooted in skleros meaning 'hard' or 'dry' — the same root that gives us sclera, the tough white outer coat of the eyeball. Ancient Greek physicians used the word for any body part that had turned unnaturally firm; 19th-century medicine narrowed it into the clinical term we use today, as in arteriosclerosis or multiple sclerosis.
- root meaning
- Greek for hardness, nothing poetic about it
- multiple sclerosis
- immune system attacks nerve insulation, not the nerve itself
- bureaucratic sclerosis
- same stiffening, minus the biology, all the dysfunction
- arteries edition
- atherosclerosis turns flexible vessels into rigid plumbing