Sclerosed

One of the greatest gifts life has given me so far is to discover, that in the middle of my life, when our veins and views usually become sclerosed and we turn inward and become closed, I was and continue to be able to discover a nearly totally new art form, to plunge into with pleasure, to remain porous to new influences and feel transformed by them, as I have been by Jay-Z, forever. ❋ The New York Public Library (2010)

For someone to have sclerosed veins, track marks, is a chronic use of that vein, so that it becomes inflamed and then, eventually, that turns into a scar. ❋ Unknown (2009)

A sclerosed and thickened portion of the median nerve 3-1/2 inches in length was resected, also 1 inch of sclerosed ulnar nerve, and both were sutured. ❋ George Henry Makins (N/A)

They are are a body of elderly men, and the elderly brain is sclerosed and cannot record new impressions. ❋ Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 (1926)

At the time of report the whole ten fingers were involved; the bones seemed to be thickened, the soft parts being indurated or sclerosed. ❋ Unknown (1896)

In the right index finger a completely sclerosed ring passed around the middle phalanx. ❋ Unknown (1896)

The whole tonsil is enlarged, the mucous membrane thickened, and the connective tissue more or less sclerosed. ❋ Alexander Miles (1893)

The operation consists in opening the skull freely, and removing any discoverable cause of irritation -- depressed bone, thickened and adherent membranes, a cyst, or sclerosed patch of cortex; it may be necessary to interpose a layer of tissue, a flap of fascia lata, for example, between the bone and the cortex of the brain. ❋ Alexander Miles (1893)

It was an ideal match for her skills, since heroin addicts "learn how to draw blood from veins that are sclerosed over and hard to get to," Drake explains. ❋ Unknown (2010)