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kovettuminen — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • cure noun A treatment or remedy that restores health or solves a problem.
  • hardening noun The process of becoming, or making something, harder or tougher.
  • induration noun An enduring presence; fixity.
  • sclerosis noun A medical condition in which body tissue, such as an artery, hardens abnormally.

Senses

kovettuminen is used for these senses in English:

  • cure An act of healing or state of being healed; restoration to health after a disease, or to soundness after injury.
  • cure A process of solidification or gelling.
  • cure (engineering) A process whereby a material is caused to form permanent molecular linkages by exposure to chemicals, heat, pressure or weathering.
  • hardening The process by which something hardens.
  • induration (medical) A hardening of an area of the body as a reaction to inflammation, hyperemia, or neoplastic infiltration.
  • sclerosis (pathology) The abnormal hardening of body tissues, such as an artery; the appearance of hardenings, indurations, lesions, nodules.

cure — full definition

  1. noun A treatment or remedy that restores health or solves a problem.
  2. verb To restore someone to health, or to fix a problem completely.
  3. verb To preserve food, typically meat or fish, by salting, smoking, or drying.

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