What is the medical term meaning pertaining to enlargement of the abdomen?

Answer 1

Myosclerosis is abnormal hardening of muscle. There are six different abdominal muscles of the anterior abdominal wall. The rectus abdominis, external obliques, internal obliques and the transverse abdominus muscle.

Answer 2

INDURATION Example: the hard, raised area on the skin produced by a reaction to PPD injection
sclerosis
The medical term for the condition of hardening is usually Sclerosis or sclerotic.

Answer 3

Ossification is the normal process of bone hardening; osteosclerosis is abnormal bone hardening.
your funny bone

Answer 4

Sclerosis is the medical term meaning abnormal hardening.

Answer 5

gastr/o/malacia (gas″tro-mah-la´shah) softening of the wall of the stomach

Answer 6

Hepatosclerosis is hardening of the liver. Cirrhosis is one possible cause of hepatosclerosis.

Answer 7

Ascitic means pertaining to ascites, which is enlargement of the abdomen due to fluid.

Answer 8

The medical term meaning firm abdomen could be abdominal rigidity.

Answer 9

A soft abdomen is usually charted using those very words: "abdomen soft."

Answer 10

Ossification is when soft bone or cartilage such as a baby's skull starts to harden into bone.