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fibrofatty

fibrofatty adjective: relating to fibrous tissue and adipose tissue; fibrous and fatty.

Adjective

fibrofatty (not comparable)

  1. Relating to fibrous tissue and adipose tissue; fibrous and fatty.
    • CT occasionally can help distinguish these disorders by showing differences in wall thickness, wall density, distribution of colonic involvement, and the presence or absence of small-bowel disease, abscesses, fistulas, and mesentenic fibrofatty proliferation (Table 1).1996 July, Richard M. Gore, Emil J. Balthazar, Gary G. Ghahremani, Frank H. Miller, “CT Features of Ulcerative Colitis and Crohn’s Disease”, in American Journal of Roentgenology, volume 167, number...
    • In the initial proliferative phase, angiogenesis in hemangiomas is excessive but is followed by spontaneous regression, and the cellular parenchyma is gradually replaced with fibrofatty tissue.2015 June 4, Devandir Antonio de Souza Junior et al., “The Role of Mast Cell Specific Chymases and Tryptases in Tumor Angiogenesis”, in BioMed Research International, volume 2015, →DOI

Forms of fibrofatty

alternative formfibro-fatty

Origin of fibrofatty

From fibro- + fatty.

Questions about fibrofatty

What does fibrofatty mean?
Fibrofatty means relating to fibrous tissue and adipose tissue; fibrous and fatty.
What part of speech is fibrofatty?
Fibrofatty is an adjective.

Words near fibrofatty in the dictionary

  1. fibroepithelial polyp
  2. fibroepithelial polyps
  3. fibroepithelioma
  4. fibroepitheliomas
  5. fibroepitheliomata
  6. fibrofatty
  7. fibroferrite
  8. fibrofibrinous
  9. fibrofog
  10. fibrofolliculoma
  11. fibrofolliculomas

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