scleroderma

(skle-ro-der’mah) (Gr. oxAnpés hard + δέρμα skin]. A disease of the skin in which thickened, hard, rigid, and pigmented patches occur, the connective ti ue of the corium and subcutaneous structures being increased, a hidebound condition resulting. The ordinary form (5. adsdto'rum) begins in middle life, and is often incurable. 8. cir cum scrip’tum, morphea. diffuse symmetric s., scleroderma. 8s. neon a to’rum. Same as sclerema neon a to rum.