How to Use sclerosis in a Sentence
sclerosis
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Lawmakers would do well to advance policies that would cure the agency's sclerosis.
—Sally Pipes, Forbes, 18 July 2022
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More widely, the failure will speak to the sclerosis of American governance.
—Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic, 15 June 2022
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Multiple sclerosis can start with mild symptoms, which may then ebb and flow as the disease progresses.
—Sarah Jacob, SELF, 10 Aug. 2021
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There is a great deal of painstaking academic work exploring the reasons for Brito-sclerosis.
—The Economist, 31 Aug. 2017
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The city decided to solve this sclerosis by banning all street parking in central downtown.
—Los Angeles Times, 24 Aug. 2021
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His mother has multiple sclerosis, and his ad opens with her talking about her story.
—Megan Friedman, Esquire, 22 June 2017
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Multiple sclerosis is a central nervous system disease that affects the brain and spinal cord.
—Beth Krietsch, SELF, 22 July 2022
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Whether visionary or naïve, Suarez is offering an escape from the sclerosis of America’s big cities.
—Daniel Tenreiro, National Review, 28 Dec. 2020
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The medicine is the gold standard for treating tuberous sclerosis patients who develop epilepsy.
—Jennifer Couzin-Frankel, Science | AAAS, 12 Dec. 2019
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Multiple sclerosis is a potentially disabling disease of the brain and spinal cord.
—Ben Thomas | Bthomas@al.com, al, 27 May 2022
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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
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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
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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
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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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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
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Multiple sclerosis is a progressive condition that affects the brain and spinal cord (the central nervous system).
—Sara Gaynes Levy, SELF, 26 Oct. 2021
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Multiple sclerosis, or MS, affects the central nervous system, causing the immune system to attack its own healthy cells.
—al, 10 Aug. 2021
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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
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At the same time, the United States—that beacon of Western democracy—was suffering from economic and political sclerosis.
—Yasheng Huang, Foreign Affairs, 25 Sep. 2023
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