arterial sclerosis

Questions about arterial sclerosis

What does arterial sclerosis mean?

arterial sclerosis means "sclerosis of the arterial walls".

What is another word for arterial sclerosis?

Close synonyms include arteriosclerosis, hardening of the arteries, induration of the arteries, coronary-artery disease. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is arterial sclerosis a common word?

arterial sclerosis is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.