Noun

(-)

Hardness.

* 1980. Anthony Burgess, Earthly Powers :

The voice was harder than I had known, and not only in stony reaction to long floods of wholly just selfpity, also roughened with gin and smoke, perhaps also assimilated to New York induration , the hardness of culture as well as of pain.

Process of becoming hard.

(medical) Hardening of an area of the body as a reaction to inflammation, hyperemia, or neoplastic infiltration.

(medical) An area or part of the body that has undergone such a reaction. Most often this term is used to describe dermatologic findings.

* 2005.' Kimura, et al. "Comparison of erythema and '''induration as results of tuberculin tests.'' ''Int J Tuberc Lung Dis. 2005;9(8):853-7. PMID 16104630:

Both erythema and induration appear to be adequate indices of tuberculin sensitivity.

* 2005. Race, et al. "Painful nodule with induration and spreading erythema." Baylor University Medical Center Proceedings. 2005;18(4):401–404:

The erythema had spread to 20 cm, and the central induration had spread to 9 cm.

Noun

(en noun)

The state of being swollen.

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, year= a1420 , year_published= 1894 , author= The British Museum Additional MS, 12,056 , by= (Lanfranc of Milan) , title= Lanfranc's "Science of cirurgie." , url= http://books.google.com/books?id=6XktAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA63 , original= , chapter= Wounds complicated by the Dislocation of a Bone , section= , isbn= 1163911380 , edition= , publisher= K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co , location= London , editor= Robert von Fleischhacker , volume= , page= 63 , passage= Ne take noon hede to brynge togidere þe parties of þe boon þat is to-broken or dislocate, til viij. daies ben goon in þe wyntir, & v. in þe somer; for þanne it schal make quytture, and be sikir from swellynge ; & þanne brynge togidere þe brynkis eiþer þe disiuncture after þe techynge þat schal be seid in þe chapitle of algebra. }}

Anything swollen, especially any abnormally swollen part of the body.