Assertion: atherosclerosis | /r/SimilarTo | gruel
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text: Arteriosclerosis is a general term describing any hardening (and loss of elasticity) of medium or large arteries (from Greek ἀρτηρία (artēria), meaning 'artery', and σκλήρωσις (sklerosis), meaning 'hardening'); arteriolosclerosis is any hardening (and loss of elasticity) of arterioles (small arteries); atherosclerosis is a hardening of an artery specifically due to an atheromatous plaque (from Ancient Greek ἀθήρα (athḗra), meaning 'gruel').
text: Atherosclerosis comes from the Greek words “athero,” which means gruel or paste and “sclerosis,” which means hardness.