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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 Being Mainly a Clinical Study of the Nature and Effects of Injuries Produced by Bullets of Small Calibre] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jul 8, 2009] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [The New York Public Library: Making the Lions Rap: The Transformative Power of Jay-Z] Reference

In the right index finger a completely sclerosed ring passed around the middle phalanx.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine] Reference

The whole tonsil is enlarged, the mucous membrane thickened, and the connective tissue more or less sclerosed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition.] Reference

At the time of report the whole ten fingers were involved; the bones seemed to be thickened, the soft parts being indurated or sclerosed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [ Events from Dartmouth] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition.] Reference