induration Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun any pathological hardening or thickening of tissue
    sclerosis.

WordNet

In`du*ra"tion noun
Etymology
Cf. F. induration, L. induratio hardness of heart.
Definitions
  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.

Webster 1913