N24871277atherosclerosisSpoken.31Fiction.1Magazine.171Newspaper.16Academic.58atherosclerosis
/ˌæθərəʊskləˈrəʊsɪs/noun
mass noun
Medicine a disease of the arteries characterized by the deposition of plaques of fatty material on their inner walls
派生词
词源
early 20th cent.: coined in German from Greek
athērē 'groats' +
sklērōsis 'hardening' （see
SCLEROSIS）.