induration : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: induration	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for induration
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
induration n any pathological hardening or thickening of tissue [syn: sclerosis, induration]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Induration \In`dura"tion\, n. [Cf. F. induration, L. induratio hardness of heart.] 1. The act of hardening, or the process of growing hard. 2. State of being indurated, or of having become hard. 3. Hardness of character, manner, sensibility, etc.; obduracy; stiffness; want of pliancy or feeling. A certain induration* of character had arisen from long habits of business. --Coleridge.