| scleroderma |
Dermatosclerosis; hide-bound or skinbound disease; thickening of the skin caused by swelling and thickening of fibrous tissue, with eventual atrophy of the epidermis (skin layer); a manifestation of progressive systemic sclerosis.
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| scleroderma |
(noun) a usually slowly progressive disease marked by the deposition of fibrous connective tissue in the skin and often in internal organs
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| scleroderma |
a connective tissue disorder causing hardening of the skin and other organs
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| scleroderma |
or 'systemic sclerosis'. Scleroderma means 'hard skin'. However many people with this condition have problems in other parts of their bodies as well, hence the second explanatory name, 'systemic sclerosis'. Scleroderma is an uncommon, chronic (persistent) disease affecting the 'connective tissues' which surround the joints, blood vessels and sometimes internal organs beneath the affected areas of skin.
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| scleroderma |
A rare connective tissue disease in which the the most familiar abnormality is thickening and tightening of the skin. It may occur in various forms (diffuse, limited cutaneous).
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