fibroid, a. and n.
(ˈfaɪbrɔɪd)
[f. fibre + -oid.]
A. adj. Resembling fibre or fibrous tissue; composed of, or characterized by, fibre or fibrous tissue; fibroid change, fibroid degeneration, a morbid change into fibre or fibrous tissue.
| 1852 Paget Surg. Pathol. ii. 155, I have proposed the name of Recurrent Fibroid tumour. 1854 Jones & Siev. Pathol. Anat. ii. 30 Masses of fibrine..become fibroid tissues. 1874 Ibid. iv. 124 Fibroid degeneration is somewhat allied to induration. 1874 Fagge in Trans. Path. Soc. London XXV. 64 A series of cases of fibroid disease of the heart. Ibid. 67 Towards the apex of the left ventricle..there was advanced fibroid growth. 1875 B. W. Richardson Dis. Mod. Life 30 The simple growths include what are known as..fibroid tumour. 1918 Act 8 & 9 Geo. V c. 14 (title) The disease known as fibroid phthisis or silicosis of the lungs. 1967 Cancer XX. 134 (heading) Neurogenic nature of so-called inflammatory fibroid polyps of the stomach. |
B. n. Pathol. A fibroid tumour.
| 1872 Peaslee Ovar. Tumours 20 Scanzoni considered it an ovarian fibroid. 1876 Wagner's Gen. Pathol. 385 Tumor..So-called fibroma or fibroid. |