Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Having the character of fibrin; resembling fibrin.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Having, or partaking of the properties of, fibrin.

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  • adjective of, pertaining to, characteristic of, resembling or having the nature of fibrin
  • adjective composed of fibrin

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  • adjective characterized by the presence of fibrin

Etymologies

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fibrin +‎ -ous

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Examples

  • Very deep anterior chamber may occur in glaucoma, due to retraction of lens and iris following fibrinous or plastic exudation into the vitreous, or when it occurs in congenital glaucoma, due to enlargement of the globe.

    Glaucoma A Symposium Presented at a Meeting of the Chicago Ophthalmological Society, November 17, 1913 Various

  • _Diphtheria_ (_diphthera_, a membrane) is characterized by fever, debility, and a peculiar sore throat, in which exuding fibrinous matter forms a grayish white membrane, which afterward decomposes with a fetid odor.

    Hygienic Physiology : with Special Reference to the Use of Alcoholic Drinks and Narcotics Joel Dorman Steele

  • The most important are hemorrhage of the brain, meningitis, erysipelas, gangrene of the skin and bones, wasting of the muscles, fibrinous pneumonia; pericarditis, and frequently weakness of the heart with its consequences.

    Valere Aude Dare to Be Healthy, Or, The Light of Physical Regeneration Louis Dechmann

  • Degeneration and death of cells, haemorrhages, serous and fibrinous exudations, leucocyte emigration, proliferation of connective tissue and other cells, may be mentioned as some of the fundamental changes.

    Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" Various

  • The tunica vaginalis, like the serous spermatic tube, may, in consequence of inflammatory fibrinous effusion, become sacculated-multilocular, in which case, if a hydrocele form, the position of the testis will vary accordingly.

    Surgical Anatomy Joseph Maclise

  • Sero-fibrinous inflammations, such as occur in pleurisy and peritonitis, are common.

    Common Diseases of Farm Animals R. A. Craig

  • Autopsy: Death from gangrene of lung and acute fibrinous pericarditis.

    The Journal of Abnormal Psychology 1916

  • Ashhurst shows a fibrinous cast, similar to that found in croup, caused by a foreign body removed by Wharton, together with a shawl-pin, from a patient at the Children's Hospital seven hours after the performance of tracheotomy.

    Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine 1896

  • Ashhurst shows a fibrinous cast, similar to that found in croup, caused by a foreign body removed by Wharton, together with a shawl-pin, from a patient at the Children's Hospital seven hours after the performance of tracheotomy.

    Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine 1896

  • The perityphlitic pus appeared to be sacculated by adherent intestinal coils, but beyond the adhesions in the free abdominal cavity below the omentum there was diffuse, fresh, fibrinous peritonitis and distributed here and there small quantities of thin, putrid pus (many bacteria, large quantities of streptococci and cold bacilli).

    Appendicitis John Henry Tilden 1895

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