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noun

Induration n.

The act of hardening, or the process of growing hard.

State of being indurated, or of having become hard.

Hardness of character, manner, sensibility, etc.; obduracy; stiffness; lack of pliancy or feeling. "A certain induration of character had arisen from long habits of business."

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Etymology of 'Induration'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... is an induration of the skin, congenital and occurring soon after birth, and is invariably fatal. A disease somewhat analogous is edema neonatorum, which is a subcutaneous edema with induration affecting the new-born. ...

— Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine • George M. Gould

... again; but he is harassed by a sort of Mme. Evrard. When the woman was young she was one of thirty Belles Ecailleres, famous in Paris, she is a rough, greedy, gossiping woman; she torments him to make a will and to leave her something handsome, and the end of it will be induration of the liver, calculi are possibly forming at this moment, and he has not enough strength to bear an operation. The doctor, noble soul, is in a horrible predicament. He really ought to ...

— Poor Relations • Honore de Balzac

... lasts longer, it is liable to give rise to the formation of matter (abscess). In exceptional cases the testicle is struck with gangrene, or death. Improvement may go on slowly to complete recovery, or the malady may subside into a subacute and chronic form with induration. Matter (abscess) may be recognized by the presence of a soft spot, where pressure with two fingers will detect fluctuation from one to the other. When there is liquid exudation into the scrotum, or sac, fluctuation may also be felt, but the liquid ...

— Special Report on Diseases of the Horse • United States Department of Agriculture

... symptoms are [oe]dema and a variable degree of hardness and induration. It develops in the first few days of life, and usually upon the extremities, especially the lower. It may remain more or less limited to these parts, but, as a rule, slowly extends. The skin is of a yellowish, dusky, or livid color, and sometimes glossy or shining. There are ...

— Essentials of Diseases of the Skin • Henry Weightman Stelwagon

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