arteriosclerosis

noun

ar·​te·​rio·​scle·​ro·​sis är-ˌtir-ē-ō-sklə-ˈrō-səs 

: a chronic disease characterized by abnormal thickening and hardening of the arterial walls with resulting loss of elasticity compare atherosclerosis

arteriosclerotic

är-ˌtir-ē-ō-sklə-ˈrä-tik 

adjective or noun

Examples of arteriosclerosis in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

The Roman Holiday star also opened up about the tragedy in a 1987 interview with PEOPLE, citing overwork, arteriosclerosis and a breakup among his son’s troubles. —Nicole Briese, People.com, 7 Dec. 2024

The list of ailments shown to have been relieved by therapeutic fasting is long: rheumatism, arthritis, arteriosclerosis, angina, asthma, hypertension, skin diseases, kidney and gallbladder infections, periodontitis, glaucoma and migraines. —Bill Prince, theweek, 7 Nov. 2024

Fellow pro wrestler Kohei Suwama suggested to Tokyo Sports on Monday that Yoshie suffered from arteriosclerosis. —Ryan Gaydos, Fox News, 12 Mar. 2024

Leonid Brezhnev, the Communist Party’s longtime General Secretary until his death, in 1982, suffered from arteriosclerosis and an alarming dependence on sleeping pills; ordinary Soviets, in the privacy of their kitchens, mocked his inability to speak a clear sentence. —David Remnick, The New Yorker, 24 Sep. 2023

Word History

Etymology

borrowed from French artériosclerose, from artério- arterio- + sclerose sclerosis

Note: The term was introduced by the German-born French physician Jean Frédéric Lobstein (1777-1835) in Traité d'anatomie pathologique, tome second (Paris, 1833), p. 550.

First Known Use

1860, in the meaning defined above

Kids Definition

arteriosclerosis

noun

ar·​te·​rio·​scle·​ro·​sis är-ˌtir-ē-ō-sklə-ˈrō-səs 

: a disease characterized by abnormal thickening and hardening of the walls of the arteries

arteriosclerotic

-ˈrät-ik 

adjective or noun

Medical Definition

arteriosclerosis

noun

ar·​te·​rio·​scle·​ro·​sis är-ˌtir-ē-ō-sklə-ˈrō-səs 

plural arterioscleroses -ˌsēz 

: a chronic disease characterized by abnormal thickening and hardening of the arterial walls with resulting loss of elasticity see atherosclerosis