Definition of Fibroblastic

1. Adjective. of, or relating to a fibroblast ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Fibroblastic

1. [adj]

Medical Definition of Fibroblastic

1. Many types of cultured cell become fibroblastic in appearance this does not mean that they are fibroblasts. This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Fibroblastic

fibrinous polyp
fibrins
fibrinuria
fibrists
fibro
fibro-
fibro-osteoma
fibroadenoma
fibroadipose
fibroareolar
fibroblast
fibroblast growth factor
fibroblast growth factor receptor
fibroblast growth factor receptor-like embryonic kinase
fibroblast interferon
fibroblastic (current term)
fibroblastoid
fibroblasts
fibrocalcific
fibrocarcinoma
fibrocartilage
fibrocartilaginous
fibrocartilaginous ring
fibrocartilago
fibrocartilago basalis
fibrocartilago interarticularis
fibrocartilago intervertebralis
fibrocaseous peritonitis
fibrocellular
fibrochondritis

Literary usage of Fibroblastic

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Journal of Medical Research by American Association of Pathologists and Bacteriologists (1901)
"Many mitoses were present in the peripheral fibroblastic tissue and in the ... In case of a concentric arrangement of the fibroblastic tissue the ..."

2. The Journal of Experimental Medicine by Rockefeller University, Rockefeller Institute, Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research (1916)
"On the other hand, with arsenic acid, there is a relatively large amount of fibroblastic proliferation, especially in the boundary zone, resulting in the ..."

3. Transactions of the Association of American Physicians by Association of American Physicians (1903)
"ID the majority of lobules there is an endothelial or fibroblastic proliferation in the capillaries of the central zone. This is most marked in those areas ..."

4. Neoplastic Diseases: A Treatise on Tumors by James Ewing (1922)
"Diffuse endothelioma may exactly reproduce the structure of fibroblastic sarcoma, but the location of the former growths, the appearance of typical ..."

5. Lessons in Pathological Histology by Gustave Roussy, Ivan Bertrand (1922)
"NORMAL fibroblastic CONNECTIVE TISSUE. In this section we will consider the ... Such a purely fibroblastic appearance is typical of the embryonal connective ..."

6. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1911)
"it is possible that the fibroblastic areas may be largely made up of cells derived ... Cellular infiltration and fibroblastic proliferation were, as a rule, ..."

7. The Medical Aspects of Mustard Gas Poisoning by Aldred Scott Warthin, Carl Vernon Weller (1919)
"Membrana nictitans markedly hemorrhagic and shows some fibroblastic proliferation. ... Infiltration of leucocytes, beginning fibroblastic and angioblastic ..."

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