What Does Sclerotic Mean?
The word sclerotic has two meanings. It is defined as something which is related to sclerosis and is also used to refer to a person who is suffering from sclerosis. Sclerotic is another word for hardened. It also means of or relating to the sclera or sclerotic tissue, which is a tissue of the eyeball. The word sclerosis is defined as a condition in which the organs which are within the nervous system of the human body, particularly the brain and the spinal cord, harden. Sclerosis is the name of the condition which results from the degeneration of such elements of the nervous system as the myelin sheath. The phrases that are closely related to the word sclerotic are sclerotic coat (the fibrous membrane or albuginea which is whitish in colour which, along with the cornea, forms the outer covering of the eyeball), sclerotic ring (the ring of bones which support the eye and which are located in the orbit of the skull of many vertebrate animals, except mammals and crocodiles) and sclerotic
