induration
Collocations
2ADJ.
cryptic, new
INDURATION + NOUN
aphrodisiac
Definitions
noun
Hardness.
The voice was harder than I had known, and not only in stony reaction to long floods of wholly just selfpity, also roughened with gin and smoke, perhaps also assimilated to New York induration, the hardness of culture as well as of pain.
An enduring presence; fixity.
Even the putatively innocuous whimsical shapes and designs of cakes and pastry, notably in Central Europe, retain to this day the phallic concept, the cryptic induration of the aphrodisiac function.
The process of becoming hard.
A hardening of an area of the body as a reaction to inflammation, hyperemia, or neoplastic infiltration.
An area or part of the body that has undergone such a reaction.
Both erythema and induration appear to be adequate indices of tuberculin sensitivity.
The erythema had spread to 20 cm, and the central induration had spread to 9 cm.
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Synonyms
noun — any pathological hardening or thickening of tissue
- sclerosis
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3The voice was harder than I had known, and not only in stony reaction to long floods of wholly just selfpity, also roughened with gin and smoke, perhaps also assimilated to New York induration, the ha
WiktionaryEven the putatively innocuous whimsical shapes and designs of cakes and pastry, notably in Central Europe, retain to this day the phallic concept, the cryptic induration of the aphrodisiac function.
WiktionaryBoth erythema and induration appear to be adequate indices of tuberculin sensitivity.
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