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Scleredema
- noun - a skin disease marked by hard edema of the tissue usually beginning in the face
Scleriasis
- - A morbid induration of the edge of the eyelid. (b) Induration of any part, including scleroderma.
Sclerobase
- - The calcareous or hornlike coral forming the central stem or axis of most compound alcyonarians; -- called also foot secretion. See Illust. under Gorgoniacea, and Coenenchyma.
Scleroderm
- - One of a tribe of plectognath fishes (Sclerodermi) having the skin covered with hard scales, or plates, as the cowfish and the trunkfish. (b) One of the Sclerodermata. (c) Hardened, or bony, integument of various animals.
Sclerotium
- noun - compact usually dark-colored mass of hardened mycelium constituting a vegetative food-storage body in various true fungi; detaches when mature and can give rise to new growth
- form genus of sterile imperfect fungi; many form sclerotia; some cause sclerotium disease in plants
Sclerotome
- - One of the bony, cartilaginous, or membranous partitions which separate the myotomes.
Sclerotomy
- noun - surgical incision of the sclerotic coat of the eye
Scoffingly
- adverb - in a disrespectful and mocking manner; "`Sorry,' she repeated derisively"