Sclerotic parenchyma (Bot.), sclerenchyma. By some writers a
distinction is made, sclerotic parenchyma being applied to tissue
composed of cells with the walls hardened but not thickened, and
sclerenchyma to tissue composed of cells with the walls both hardened
and thickened.
Scle*rot"ic, n. [Cf. F. sclérotique.] (Anat.) The sclerotic coat of the
eye. See Illust. of Eye (d).
Scle*rot"ic, a. (Chem.) Pertaining to, or designating, an acid obtained
from ergot or the sclerotium of a fungus growing on rye.
Scle*rot"ic*al (?), a. (Anat.) Sclerotic.
||Scler`o*ti"tis (?), n. [NL. See Sclerotic, and -itis.] (Med.)
||Inflammation of the sclerotic coat.
||Scle*ro"ti*um (?), n.; pl. Sclerotia (#). [NL., fr. Gr. sklhro`s
||hard.] 1. (Bot.) A hardened body formed by certain fungi, as by the
||Claviceps purpurea, which produces ergot.