Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The formation of fibrous tissue, as normally occurs in the healing of wounds.
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- noun The generation of
fibrous tissue .
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Examples
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Lovvorn HN, Cass DL, Sylvester KG, Crombleholme TM, Adzick NS, Savani RC: Hyaluronan receptor exprression increases in fetal excisional skin wounds and correlates with fibroplasia.
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A epidemic of retrolental fibroplasia (RLF) seemed to have grown up just as treatments for preemies had improved.
Doctor Pinpointed Oxygen as Cause of Preemies' Blindness Stephen Miller 2010
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A epidemic of retrolental fibroplasia (RLF) seemed to have grown up just as treatments for preemies had improved.
Doctor Pinpointed Oxygen as Cause of Preemies' Blindness Stephen Miller 2010
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A epidemic of retrolental fibroplasia (RLF) seemed to have grown up just as treatments for preemies had improved.
Doctor Pinpointed Oxygen as Cause of Preemies' Blindness Stephen Miller 2010
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Lots of mention of fibroplasia, lymphocytes and melanophages.
grouse Diary Entry grouse 2001
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Known then as retrolental fibroplasia, it is now called retinopathy of prematurity, or R.O.P. The oxygen, he found, led to overgrowth of blood vessels in the eye, damaging the retina irreparably.
NYT > Home Page By LAWRENCE K. ALTMAN 2010
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Eating irradiated foods can result in chromosome damage, immunotxicity, kidney disease, cardiac thrombus and fibroplasia.
WordPress.com News 2009
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Let me explain: I've been living with retrolental fibroplasia (now known by the more benign, over-arching term
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