Hardening or fibrosis of glandular tissue, often resulting in loss of glandular function.
From Greek 'aden' (gland) + 'sclerosis' (hardening), where 'sclerosis' comes from 'sklerós' (hard). The term describes progressive replacement of normal glandular tissue with scar tissue.
Adenosclerosis happens slowly and invisibly—your gland gradually fills with scar tissue until one day it stops working, which is why many diseases sneak up on people; the damage was happening for years before symptoms appeared.
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