Crossword clues for fibrosis
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"fibrous growth or development in an organ," 1871, a Modern Latin hybrid, from Latin fibra "a fiber, filament" (see fiber) + Greek suffix -osis.
Wiktionary
n. (context medicine English) The formation of excess fibrous connective tissue in an organ
WordNet
n. development of excess fibrous connective tissue in an organ
Wikipedia
Fibrosis is the formation of excess fibrous connective tissue in an organ or tissue in a reparative or reactive process. This can be a reactive, benign, or pathological state. In response to injury, this is called scarring, and if fibrosis arises from a single cell line, this is called a fibroma. Physiologically, fibrosis acts to deposit connective tissue, which can obliterate the architecture and function of the underlying organ or tissue. Fibrosis can be used to describe the pathological state of excess deposition of fibrous tissue, as well as the process of connective tissue deposition in healing. Defined by the pathological accumulation of extracellular matrix (ECM) proteins, fibrosis results in scarring and thickening of the affected tissue, it is in essence an exaggerated wound healing response which interferes with normal organ function.
Usage examples of "fibrosis".
Single gene defects are known to cause several thousand different diseases, such as cystic fibrosis, sickle cell anemia, and hemophilia.
A heart transplant is out of the question because of the cystic fibrosis.
Genes bearing significant responsibility for cystic fibrosis and breast cancer have been identified.
A few years ago he lost his daughter to cystic fibrosis and that ordeal turned him into a different person.
She hated cystic fibrosis just like you hate diabetes, but there was nothing she or I-could do.
Add in the respiratory infections, the bouquet of asthmas, cystic fibrosis, miliary TB.
Patchy necrosis and fibrosis of varying age, and chronic ischemia, plus an absence of coronary artery disease or cardiomegaly.
There, together with various collaborators, he employed a new technique called positional cloning to find the human gene that, if mutated, can give rise to cystic fibrosis.
Considering all that she'd been through with her cystic fibrosis, it wasn't much to ask for.
But less than two weeks after we buried you, they told me I had cystic fibrosis, too.
He was all too familiar with the unpredictable variation of good days and bad days that cystic fibrosis inflicted on its victims and their families.
A single gene mutation at this site produces a disease known as cystic fibrosis, which drastically alters the secretory function of the lungs and pancreas.
Alzheimer's, muscular dystrophy, hemophilia, leukemia, anorexia, diabetes, cancer, multiple sclerosis, cystic fibrosis, cerebral palsy, dyslexia, for Christ sakes –.
No more sickle-cell anemia, no more hemophilia or cystic fibrosis, no more jerry-built eyeballs that made you myopic, no more saddle-bag flab or hay fever or dinky cocks or bald heads twinkling in the moonlight to put a damper on ro.