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fibroatherotic

fibroatherotic adjective: fibrous and atherotic.

Adjective

fibroatherotic (not comparable)

  1. fibrous and atherotic
    • According to this classification, carotid plaques were assigned as fibroatherotic (type V) and complicated (type VI).2015 August 19, Aimilia Varela et al., “Elevated expression of mechanosensory polycystins in human carotid atherosclerotic plaques: association with p53 activation and disease severity”, in...

Origin of fibroatherotic

From fibro- + atherotic.

Questions about fibroatherotic

What does fibroatherotic mean?
Fibroatherotic means fibrous and atherotic.
What part of speech is fibroatherotic?
Fibroatherotic is an adjective.

Words near fibroatherotic in the dictionary

  1. fibroatheroma
  2. fibroatheromas
  3. fibroatheromata
  4. fibroatheromatic
  5. fibroatheromatous
  6. fibroatherotic
  7. fibroatrophic
  8. fibroatrophy
  9. fibroblast
  10. fibroblastic
  11. fibroblastoid

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