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Definition of Fibrositis
1. Noun. Inflammation of white fibrous tissues (especially muscle sheaths).
Definition of Fibrositis
1. Noun. fibromyalgia ¹
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Definition of Fibrositis
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Medical Definition of Fibrositis
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Fibrositis
Literary usage of Fibrositis
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Treatise on clinical medicine by William Hanna Thomson (1918)
"fibrositis, therefore, is sure to occasion atrophy of the implicated muscles,
... The main indication for treatment of fibrositis is to deal with its local ..."
2. General Pathology and Principles of Medicine for Students and Practitioners by Vernon Cecil Rowland (1921)
"fibrositis.— This is a term applied to localized inflammatory infiltrations and
fibrous thickenings around bones and in the subcutaneous tissues and muscles ..."
3. Gout by Richard Llewellyn Jones Llewellyn, William Mardon Beaumont (1921)
"Our difficulty, moreover, in appreciating the cogency of this plea for excluding
the influence of gout in muscular fibrositis is the more accentuated in ..."
4. Medical Diagnosis by Arthur Latham (1915)
"fibrositis (MUSCULAR RHEUMATISM). Muscular pains of varying intensity may result
from a toxic inflammation of the fibrous tissues between various muscle ..."
5. The Clinical Journal (1905)
"Sudden and considerable variations in temperature constitute by no means an
uncommon cause of a generalised fibrositis which takes the form of so-called ..."
6. A System of Diet and Dietetics by George Alexander Sutherland (1908)
"DIET IN CHRONIC RHEUMATISM (fibrositis) Under this heading are included not only
the chronic joint affections, which may be left as sequelae of acute or ..."