induration
Becoming abnormally firm
Induration is the process of hardening or the state of being hardened.
In medicine, it describes abnormal firmness in tissue—skin that has become indurated feels tough and resistant to pressure, often from inflammation, scarring, or disease: The injection site showed redness and induration.
The term extends figuratively to emotional or moral hardening: an induration of the heart against pity.
Pathological connective tissue buildup
- sclerosisMorbid tissue hardening
- noduleRounded small lump
- lesionArea of pathological change
- hardeningBecoming less soft
mass · lump · granuloma · plaque · thickening · cicatrix · scar · neoplasm
Becoming less soft
- solidificationTransition to firm state
- settingContext of events
- stiffeningBecoming less pliable
- curingRestoring health or preserving
tempering · consolidation · coagulation · congealing · gelation · vitrification · annealing · sintering
Particles settling in liquid
- strataParallel geological layers
- metamorphicUndergoing structural change
- petrificationBecoming rock-like
- compactionReducing volume through pressure
cementation · rock · mineral · crystallization · fossil · mudstone · shale · sandstone
Cruelly insensitive to others
- unfeelingWithout compassion or emotion
- hardenedMade tough or unfeeling
- insensibleUnaware, without feeling
- steeledHardened one's resolve
inured · desensitized · numbed · cold · impervious · unmoved · stony · pitiless
fibrosis
Pathological connective tissue buildup
hardening · mass · lump · granuloma · plaque · thickening · cicatrix · scar · neoplasm · inflammation
hardening
Becoming less soft
- solidificationTransition to firm state
- settingContext of events
- stiffeningBecoming less pliable
curing · tempering · consolidation · coagulation · congealing · gelation · vitrification · annealing · sintering · thickening
sediment
Particles settling in liquid
- strataParallel geological layers
- metamorphicUndergoing structural change
- petrificationBecoming rock-like
compaction · cementation · rock · mineral · crystallization · fossil · mudstone · shale · sandstone · bedrock
callous
Cruelly insensitive to others
- unfeelingWithout compassion or emotion
- hardenedMade tough or unfeeling
- insensibleUnaware, without feeling
steeled · inured · desensitized · numbed · cold · impervious · unmoved · stony · pitiless · case-hardened
indurationsoftening
Becoming less firm
softness · pliability · suppleness · malleability · flaccidity
indurationtenderness
Gentle, caring quality
softness · compassion · sensitivity · sentimentality · warm-heartedness
during, endure, enduring, durable, duration, endurance, durability, endured, duress