scleroderma
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scleroderma


Term: scleroderma
Literally meaning: tough skin
Origin: Anc Greek
???????/scleros(=hard, tough)
?????/derma(=skin) > ?????/desma(=bonds) because skin keeps the body tight > ????/dero(=to peel, to flay).
Coined/History
in 1847 by Gintrac who based on the obvious cutaneous manifestations of the vascular and fibrotic changes that characterize the disease.
Definition
Scleroderma refers to a heterogeneous group of autoimmune disorders disease that causes mainly inflammation and thickening of the skin. Other symptoms includes spontaneous scarring and  blood vessel disease,





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