FIBROSIS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does fibrosis mean? 

• FIBROSIS (noun)
  The noun FIBROSIS has 1 sense:

1. development of excess fibrous connective tissue in an organ

  Familiarity information: FIBROSIS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FIBROSIS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Development of excess fibrous connective tissue in an organ

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("fibrosis" is a kind of...):

pathology (any deviation from a healthy or normal condition)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "fibrosis"):

CF; cystic fibrosis; fibrocystic disease of the pancreas; mucoviscidosis; pancreatic fibrosis (the most common hereditary disease; the child's lungs and intestines and pancreas become clogged with thick mucus; caused by defect in a single gene; no cure is known)

myelofibrosis (fibrosis of the bone marrow)

Holonyms ("fibrosis" is a part of...):

pneumoconiosis; pneumonoconiosis (chronic respiratory disease caused by inhaling metallic or mineral particles)

 Context examples 

As CTGF enhances the production of collagen and fibronectin, FG-319 may prevent and reverse fibrosis.

(Anti-CTGF Monoclonal Antibody FG-3019, NCI Thesaurus)

A monoclonal antibody being studied in the treatment of kidney cancer, melanoma, and pulmonary fibrosis.

(anti-TGF-beta monoclonal antibody GC1008, NCI Dictionary)

A nodular sclerosis Hodgkin lymphoma characterized by the presence of lacunar cells, nodular growth, and the absence of fibrosis.

(Nodular Sclerosis Classical Hodgkin Lymphoma , Cellular Phase, NCI Thesaurus)

It is characterized by liver fibrosis, portal hypertension, and renal cysts.

(Congenital Hepatic Fibrosis, NCI Thesaurus)

An acute myeloid leukemia characterized by bone marrow fibrosis.

(Acute Panmyelosis with Myelofibrosis, NCI Thesaurus/WHO)

A morphologic finding indicating the presence of fibrosis around an intrahepatic bile duct in the liver tissue.

(Concentric Fibrosis of Intrahepatic Duct, NCI Thesaurus)

It results in fibrosis of the lung parenchyma.

(Asbestosis, NCI Thesaurus)

A gastrointestinal disorder characterized by chronic inflammation involving all layers of the intestinal wall, noncaseating granulomas affecting the intestinal wall and regional lymph nodes, and transmural fibrosis.

(Crohn disease, NCI Thesaurus)

It is characterized by the presence of a mesenchymal chondroid stroma, fibrosis, and epithelial structures.

(Mixed Tumor of the Skin (Chondroid Syringoma), NCI Thesaurus)

In humans, this species is pathogenic and associated with cystic fibrosis.

(Burkholderia cenocepacia, NCI Thesaurus)