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(medicine) A chronic systemic autoimmune disease characterized by hardening the skin or other organs through excessive deposits of collagen..
Use scleroderma when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Scleroderma means (medicine) A chronic systemic autoimmune disease characterized by hardening the skin or other organs through excessive deposits of collagen..
Common synonyms include systemic sclerosis, scleroderm, genus scleroderma.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Use scleroderma where its definition matches the intended context.
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