fibrosis
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- noun
- /faɪˈbroʊsɪs/
- Specialized
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fibrosis
- Unifocal lesions sometimes undergo fibrosis and heal spontaneously; sometimes an incisional biopsy is sufficient to trigger healing.
- cystic fibrosis
- pulmonary fibrosis
- capsular fibrosis
Look, high blood sugar induces chronic inflammation and fibrosis.
- Look, high blood sugar induces chronic inflammation and fibrosis.
- She ended up with pulmonary fibrosis with her lungs that were getting scarred from repeated inflammation from breathing in these these proteins and stuff.
- They have, you know, a terrible case of lung fibrosis and others don't, you know, some have, you know, thickening of the skin and others don't.
Examples
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The liver fibrosis gets inflamed, gets fibrotic and then develops nodules which don't function.
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I need a double lung transplant, but was diagnosed with pulmonary fibrosis.
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Medical therapy will slow the development of fibrosis in some cases, but it does not always prevent it.
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At the level of the oval window, fibrosis is often extensive.
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Thus, in this study, we could not determine how much swallow function can be preserved after fibrosis.
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But if you have pulmonary fibrosis, a scarring disease of the lung, then your lung is very difficult to stretch.
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Her GP referred Mrs. A to secondary care with a provisional diagnosis of pulmonary fibrosis or alveolitis.
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CT also showed findings consistent with interstitial fibrosis and no evidence of retropharyngeal abscess or prevertebral thickening.
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Unchecked, this sensitizes the pancreas to further injurious events leading to stellate cell stimulation, progressive fibrosis, and parenchymal destruction.
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Pulmonary fibrosis occurs when lung tissue becomes damaged and scarred, affecting breathing ability.
Synonyms
Too much growth of thick tissue that makes scars and stops organs working well
Compounds
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A serious inherited disease that makes thick sticky mucus in the lungs and other organs, causing breathing and digestion problems
A gene making a membrane protein that controls salt and water in lung cells and whose mutations cause cystic fibrosis
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A build up of scar tissue in the pancreas that makes it work less well
How Fibrous
Surface Forms
Morphology
fibrosis = fibrous (semi-transparent) = fibro + osis
The connection to 'fibrous' (fiber-related) is clear, but the medical suffix '-osis' (disease/condition) is specialized and may be unfamiliar to average learners.
Etymology
Fibrosis comes from the parts fibro- meaning 'fiber' and -osis meaning 'condition' or 'process'. So fibrosis is the condition of having too much fibrous, scar-like tissue in an organ, often after an injury or long-term inflammation.