induration

About 0.33 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun Hardness.
2. noun An enduring presence; fixity.
3. noun The process of becoming hard.
4. noun A hardening of an area of the body as a reaction to inflammation, hyperemia, or neoplastic infiltration.
5. noun An area or part of the body that has undergone such a reaction.
6. noun The quality of nonfriability; the extent to which a rock does not crumble; rock strength.
7. noun The process of the strengthening of rocks by heating, compaction or cementation, or a combination thereof.

Similar words

sclerosis hardness indurateness durity obdurance firmness tumidness nodularity hardenability stiffness

Often followed by

of and is or in at may which was

Word family

indurations indurative