The Collaborative International Dictionary
Fibroid \Fi"broid\, a. [L. fibra a fiber + -oid.] (Med.) Resembling or forming fibrous tissue; made up of fibers; as, fibroid tumors. -- n. A fibroid tumor; a fibroma.
Fibroid degeneration, a form of degeneration in which organs or tissues are converted into fibroid tissue.
Fibroid phthists, a form of pulmonary consumption associated with the formation of fibrous tissue in the lungs, and the gradual atrophy of the lungs, from the pressure due to the contraction of this tissue.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1848, from fiber + -oid.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context pathology English) A benign tumour of the uterus that is comprised of either fibrous connective tissue or muscle. 2 (context pathology English) A fibroma.
WordNet
Wikipedia
Fibroid is a term used for two different types of tumors:
- Fibroids is the common term for uterine fibroids; leiomyoma or myoma originating in the uterus. It is a benign neoplasm composed of smooth muscle cells.
- A fibroid tumor is another name for a fibroma, a tumor of fibrous connective tissue.
Degeneration of fibroid: Hyaline degeneration is most common(65%) Red degeneration occurs in large fibroid mainly during second half of pregnancy.
Usage examples of "fibroid".
Electrical treatment will destroy the life of ovarian and fibroid tumors if applied early and after the improved methods so long used at our Institution.
On examination, we found an inter-mural fibroid tumor, represented in Figs.
In December, 1890, I went to you, after suffering five years with two fibroid tumors of the uterus.
She never gave me reason to tell her that a woman who had that kind of fibroid surgery must deliver all her babies by cesarean section!
A kzin to control them, bulking even huger in fibroid armour and helmet.
He was yet only halfway across, and already the fibroid life attached to the underside of the raft had made it heavy and sluggish and dangerously low in the water.
The raft was waterlogged and barely able to support his weight, all his protective sting-wing carcasses had been washed away, the creeping fibroid tentacles had stripped considerable areas of skin from his ankles, and his blowpipe and throwing stick had floated away.
You at once give up on any organic cause when even a student would suspect ovarian trouble of some kind: if not fibroids, cysts.
The family physician brusquely rejected in the matter of the fibroids is now welcome: the pains are indeed caused by too much typing and secretarial work.
The case was also complicated with interstitial and subserous fibroids and a contracted pelvis, combined with a posterior position of the occiput and nonrotation of the head.
She never gave me reason to tell her that a woman who had that kind of fibroid surgery must deliver all her babies by cesarean section!
A psychic operation was decided on, and as I watched I could see the energy counterparts of the fibroids, three opaque lumps of energy, actually being lifted out of her body and then disappearing.
It seems that by removing the congestion in the energy counterpart the operation enabled the physical fibroids to shrink and vanish from the body.
They envied me for having healed up already, and were not reluctant to make pointed comments about the unlucky person who was presumed to be waiting in line for my bed, plunged into abysmal depths of misery by fibroids or a dodgy pelvis.
In the case of Peter and Beatrice, he also tried to help them through a difficult pregnancy, even though Beatrice had a raft of uterine fibroids that stacked the odds against bringing a fetus to term.