Fibrosis

Definition: Fibrosis

Fibrosis

Noun

1. Development of excess fibrous connective tissue in an organ.

Specialty Definitions: Fibrosis

Domain	Definitions
Health	Any pathological condition where fibrous connective tissue invades any organ, usually as a consequence of inflammation or other injury. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Crosswords: Fibrosis

English words defined with "fibrosis": cystic fibrosis ♦ keratomalacia ♦ malabsorption syndrome, myelofibrosis ♦ pancreatic fibrosis ♦ siderosis ♦ zinc deficiency. (references)

Specialty definitions using "fibrosis": Allylamine, anthracosilicosis ♦ Brinton's disease ♦ Caroli's Disease, complicated pneumoconiosis, Crohn Disease ♦ Drainage, Postural ♦ Endomyocardial Fibrosis ♦ Hepatic Veno-Occlusive Disease, Hepatitis, Alcoholic, Hidradenitis Suppurativa ♦ inert dust ♦ leather-bottle stomach, linitis, linitis plastica, lung fibrosis ♦ masses pseudo-tumorales, Mice, Inbred CFTR, Mice, Knockout, mixed-dust fibrosis ♦ nonfibrogenic dust, non-respirable dust ♦ occupational diseases of the miners ♦ Panniculitis, Peritoneal, progressive mass fibrosis, progressive massive fibrosis, Pulmonary Fibrosis, PULMONARY-FUNCTION TECHNICIAN, pulmonary-function technologis ♦ radiation fibrosis, Retroperitoneal Fibrosis ♦ Sclerosing Solutions, Sclerotherapy, Stenotrophomonas maltophilia. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Fibrosis" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

Spanish (fibrosis).

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Commercial Usage: Fibrosis

Domain	Title
References	The 2002 Official Parent's Sourcebook on Cystic Fibrosis (reference) The Official Patient's Sourcebook on Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis (reference) (more reference examples)

Books	The Official Patient's Sourcebook on Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis (reference) (more book examples)

Periodicals	Canadian Cystic Fibrosis Foundation - Vancouver- Lower Mainl (reference) Journal Of Cystic Fibrosis (reference) Canadian Cystic Fibrosis Foundation - Vancouver- Lower Mainland Chapter Membership (reference) (more periodical examples)
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Photo Album: Fibrosis

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	Blood taken is usually screened for Phenylketonuria (PKU), HIV, and cystic fibrosis, to name only a few disease processes that are detectable in this manner.Credit: CDC.		Opened left ventricle of heart shows a thickened, dilated left ventricle with subendocardial fibrosis manifested as increased whiteness of endocardium. Autopsy.Credit: CDC.
	Pericentral fibrosis in alcoholic liver disease.Credit: NIAA.		Progression of liver injury in alcoholic fibrosis.Credit: NIAA.
	[Cystic fibrosis poster boy visits NIH] photograph by Jules Schlick.Credit: National Library of Medicine.		Dr. Dorothy H. Anderson, half-length portrait, facing front, accepting award plaque for her discovery of Cystic Fibrosis from Robert Natal (right), president of the New York Chapter of the National Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, and Victor Blitzer, former pr.Credit: Library of Congress.
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Non-Fiction Usage: Fibrosis

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		Lung showing extensive interstitial and alveolar fibrosis. (references)
		The protein is called CFTR--cystic fibrosis transmembrane regulator. (references)
		NIH Consensus Development Conference on Genetic Testing for Cystic Fibrosis. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Spoken Usage: Fibrosis

Speaker	Phrase(s)
Jerry Lewis	Well, if you have pulmonary fibrosis, it could be fatal. It's a very dangerous disease. Your lungs go bad and breathing becomes a problem.
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Usage Frequency: Fibrosis

"Fibrosis" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.65% of the time. "Fibrosis" is used about 287 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	99.65%	286	17,222
Noun (proper)	0.35%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	287	N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Fibrosis

Expressions using "fibrosis": Cystic fibrosis ♦ Cystic Fibrosis Transmembrane Conductance Regulator ♦ Endomyocardial Fibrosis ♦ lung fibrosis ♦ pancreatic fibrosis ♦ progressive mass fibrosis ♦ progressive massive fibrosis ♦ Pulmonary Fibrosis ♦ radiation fibrosis ♦ Retroperitoneal Fibrosis. Additional references.
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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Fibrosis

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
cystic fibrosis	2,335	fibrosis quística	14
pulmonary fibrosis	497	child and cystic fibrosis	12
fibrosis	205	cyctic fibrosis	12
idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis	128	cystic fibrosis gene	12
cystic fibrosis foundation	104	cystic fibrosis and gene therapy	11
cystic fibrosis symptom	100	cystic fibrosis screening	11
fibrosis quistica	75	disease cystic fibrosis	10
cystic fibrosis information	55	de fibrosis pancreas quistica	10
cystic fibrosis treatment	45	cystic fibrosis in child	9
cistic fibrosis	42	cystic fibrosis diagnosis	9
cystic fibrosis picture	41	cystic fibrosis pregnancy	9
systic fibrosis	41	fibrosis pulmanary	9
pulminary fibrosis	41	breast fibrosis	8
lung fibrosis	35	cystic fibrosis testing	8
retroperitoneal fibrosis	34	cystic fibrosis research	8
cystic fibrosis glutathione	29	cystic fibrosis history	7
liver fibrosis	25	pulmonary fibrosis treatment	7
epidural fibrosis	25	cystic fibrosis.com	7
fibrosis pulmonar	24	cystic fibrosis fact	7
cause of cystic fibrosis	16	canadian cystic fibrosis foundation	7
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Fibrosis

Language		Translations for "fibrosis"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		fibrozë. (various references)

Arabic		‏التليف. (various references)

Bulgarian		фибромна дегенерация. (various references)

Danish		fibrose. (various references)

Dutch		fibrose. (various references)

Finnish		sekapölykeuhko (mixed-dust fibrosis), keuhkojen sidekudostuminen-oireyhtymä (lung fibrosis), keuhkofibroosi (lung fibrosis). (various references)

French		fibrose (f), fibrose, transformation fibreuse d'un tissu (fibrous tissue formation). (various references)

German		Fibrose. (various references)

Greek		κυστική ίνωση (cystic fibrosis), ινώδης πνεύμων (lung fibrosis), μετακτινική ίνωση (irradiation fibrosis), περιπορική ίνωση (periductal fibrosis), υπεζωκοτική ίνωση (pleural fibrosis), ίνωσις Hunner (Hunner fibrosis), ίνωση από μίγμα σκόνης (mixed-dust fibrosis), ίνωση του έσω χιτώνα των αγγείων (fibrosis of the intima). (various references)

Hungarian		rostos elfajulás, rostdaganat. (various references)

Italian		fibrosi, aumento delle connessioni di un tessuto/organo (fibrous tissue formation). (various references)

Pig Latin		ibrosisfay

Portuguese		fibrose, aumento anormal do tecido conjuntivo (fibrous tissue formation). (various references)

Russian		фиброз. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		fibroza. (various references)

Spanish		fibrosis. (various references)

Swedish		mixed dust fibrosis (mixed-dust fibrosis), lungfibros (lung fibrosis), komplicerad pneumokonios (complicated pneumoconiosis, masses pseudo-tumorales, progressive mass fibrosis, progressive massive fibrosis), blanddammfibros (mixed-dust fibrosis). (various references)

Thai		การเกิ�"พังผื�". (various references)

Ukranian		фіброз. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Fibrosis

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	Dysporia enterobronchopancreatica congenita familiaris. (various references)
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Derivations & Misspellings: Fibrosis

Derivations
	Words ending with "fibrosis": myelofibrosis. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Fibrosis" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: fibrosed, fibrosity, fibrostis, fybrosis. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Fibrosis"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "fibrosis" (pronounced fībrō"sus)
5	-r ō" s u s	necrosis, nephrosis, neurosis.
4	-ō" s u s	acidosis, apotheosis, arteriosclerosis, atherosclerosis, cirrhosis, diagnosis, heterosis, hypnosis, meiosis, misdiagnosis, neurofibromatosis, prognosis, psychosis, sclerosis, symbiosis, thrombosis, tuberculosis.
3	-s u s	amniocentesis, analysis, antithesis, archdiocese, axis, catharsis, census, colossus, consensus, crisis, dialysis, diocese, electrolysis, Genesis, geotaxis, glacis, homeostasis, hydrolysis, hypothesis, metamorphosis, morphogenesis, Narcissus, nemesis, nexus, organogenesis, photosynthesis, phototaxis, plexus, preadolescence, proboscis, prosthesis, psoriasis, psychoanalysis, psychokinesis, rhesus, synopsis, synthesis, Tarsus, telexes, Texas, thesis, urinalysis, versus.
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Anagrams: Fibrosis

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "b-f-i-i-o-r-s-s"
	-2 letters: oribis.
	-3 letters: brios, forbs, oribi, sorbs.
	-4 letters: bios, boss, brio, bris, bros, fibs, firs, fobs, forb, foss, ibis, iris, obis, orbs, ribs, rifs, robs, sibs, sirs, sobs, sorb, sori, sris.
	-5 letters: bio, bis, bos, bro, fib, fir, fob, for, fro, ifs, obi, orb, ors, rib, rif, rob, sib, sir, sis, sob, sos, sri.
	Words containing the letters "b-f-i-i-o-r-s-s"
	+2 letters: fibrositis.
	+4 letters: fibrinolyses, fibrinolysis, fibrositises, frostbitings, ribbonfishes.
	+5 letters: fibrinolysins, myelofibrosis.
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