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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• When the episode aired in March 2021, Althea Grace was overwhelmed by responses of people dealing with tuberous sclerosis.
  — Susan Young, PEOPLE.com, 20 Jan. 2022
• Roche’s multiple-sclerosis drug, named Ocrevus, has had among the industry’s most rapid launches since it was approved in the U.S. last year.
  — Joseph Walker, WSJ, 10 Dec. 2018
• Lawmakers would do well to advance policies that would cure the agency's sclerosis.
  — Sally Pipes, Forbes, 18 July 2022
• More widely, the failure will speak to the sclerosis of American governance.
  — Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic, 15 June 2022
• Multiple sclerosis can start with mild symptoms, which may then ebb and flow as the disease progresses.
  — Sarah Jacob, SELF, 10 Aug. 2021
• There is a great deal of painstaking academic work exploring the reasons for Brito-sclerosis.
  — The Economist, 31 Aug. 2017
• The city decided to solve this sclerosis by banning all street parking in central downtown.
  — Los Angeles Times, 24 Aug. 2021
• His mother has multiple sclerosis, and his ad opens with her talking about her story.
  — Megan Friedman, Esquire, 22 June 2017
• Robert Dallek, a historian and biographer of Lyndon B. Johnson, said such sclerosis had ebbed and flowed in the past.
  — New York Times, 30 May 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
• 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
• 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
• 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 central nervous system disease that affects the brain and spinal cord.
  — Beth Krietsch, SELF, 22 July 2022
• Whether visionary or naïve, Suarez is offering an escape from the sclerosis of America’s big cities.
  — Daniel Tenreiro, National Review, 28 Dec. 2020
• The medicine is the gold standard for treating tuberous sclerosis patients who develop epilepsy.
  — Jennifer Couzin-Frankel, Science | AAAS, 12 Dec. 2019
• Multiple sclerosis is a potentially disabling disease of the brain and spinal cord.
  — Ben Thomas | [e-mail], al, 27 May 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
• Research and treatment for people with multiple sclerosis has come a long way since the 1980s and many credit that success to annual fundraising events, such as the one held in Orland Park on Sunday.
  — Frank Vaisvilas, Daily Southtown, 7 May 2017
• 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
• About one-third of people with type 1 diabetes have digital sclerosis.
  — Barbie Cervoni, Ms, Rd, Cdces, Cdn, Health, 18 Oct. 2023
• 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
• 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 progressive condition that affects the brain and spinal cord (the central nervous system).
  — Sara Gaynes Levy, SELF, 26 Oct. 2021
• Multiple sclerosis, or MS, affects the central nervous system, causing the immune system to attack its own healthy cells.
  — al, 10 Aug. 2021
• To see if their findings matched what was happening in people, researchers analyzed blood samples from healthy donors and from patients with dermatomyositis, lupus, and systemic sclerosis.
  — Jonathan Wosen Reprints, STAT, 1 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 15 Dec 2024