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atherosclerosis

noun · 2 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

Sound

Pronunciation

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  • Canada: /ˌæθɚoʊskləˈɹoʊsəs/
  • Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • CMU ARPABET: AE2 TH ER0 OW0 S K L ER0 OW1 S IH0 S Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

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noun

Meaning 1

The clogging or hardening of arteries or blood vessels caused by plaques (accumulations of fatty deposits, usually cholesterol).

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

Topics: biology, medicine, natural-sciences, sciences

Examples

  • Near-synonym: ASCVD

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: ASCVD

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: CVD, disease, condition

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noun

Meaning 2

a stage of arteriosclerosis involving fatty deposits (atheromas) inside the arterial walls, thus narrowing the arteries

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: coronary artery disease

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: arteriosclerosis, arterial sclerosis, hardening of the arteries, induration of the arteries, coronary-artery disease

History

Etymology

From athero- + sclerosis.

Across languages

Translations

31 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Arabic: تَصَلُّب عَصِيدِيّ (taṣallub ʕaṣīdiyy) — clogging or hardening of blood vessels caused by plaques
  • Bulgarian: атеросклеро́за (ateroskleróza) — clogging or hardening of blood vessels caused by plaques
  • Catalan: aterosclerosi — clogging or hardening of blood vessels caused by plaques
  • Chinese Mandarin: 動脈粥樣硬化 /动脉粥样硬化 (dòngmài zhōuyàng yìnghuà) — clogging or hardening of blood vessels caused by plaques
  • Czech: ateroskleróza — clogging or hardening of blood vessels caused by plaques
  • Danish: aterosklerose — clogging or hardening of blood vessels caused by plaques
  • Dutch: atherosclerose — clogging or hardening of blood vessels caused by plaques
  • Finnish: ateroskleroosi — clogging or hardening of blood vessels caused by plaques
  • Finnish: verisuonten kalkkeutuminen — clogging or hardening of blood vessels caused by plaques
  • Finnish: valtimotauti — clogging or hardening of blood vessels caused by plaques
  • French: athérosclérose — clogging or hardening of blood vessels caused by plaques
  • Icelandic: fituhrörnun slagæða — clogging or hardening of blood vessels caused by plaques
  • Indonesian: aterosklerosis — clogging or hardening of blood vessels caused by plaques
  • Italian: aterosclerosi — clogging or hardening of blood vessels caused by plaques
  • Kazakh: атеросклероз (ateroskleroz) — clogging or hardening of blood vessels caused by plaques
  • Korean: 죽상동맥경화증 (juksangdongmaekgyeonghwajeung) — clogging or hardening of blood vessels caused by plaques
  • Kyrgyz: атеросклероз (ateroskleroz) — clogging or hardening of blood vessels caused by plaques
  • Latvian: ateroskleroze — clogging or hardening of blood vessels caused by plaques
  • Norwegian Bokmål: aterosklerose — clogging or hardening of blood vessels caused by plaques
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: aterosklerose — clogging or hardening of blood vessels caused by plaques
  • Polish: arterioskleroza — clogging or hardening of blood vessels caused by plaques
  • Polish: miażdżyca — clogging or hardening of blood vessels caused by plaques
  • Portuguese: aterosclerose — clogging or hardening of blood vessels caused by plaques
  • Russian: атеросклероз (ateroskleroz) — clogging or hardening of blood vessels caused by plaques
  • Spanish: ateroesclerosis — clogging or hardening of blood vessels caused by plaques
  • Swedish: åderförkalkning — clogging or hardening of blood vessels caused by plaques
  • Swedish: åderförfettning — clogging or hardening of blood vessels caused by plaques
  • Swedish: ateroskleros — clogging or hardening of blood vessels caused by plaques
  • Tamil: தமனிக்கூழ்மைத் தடிப்பு (tamaṉikkūḻmait taṭippu) — clogging or hardening of blood vessels caused by plaques
  • Turkish: ateroskleroz — clogging or hardening of blood vessels caused by plaques
  • Ukrainian: атеросклеро́з (ateroskleróz) — clogging or hardening of blood vessels caused by plaques