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Definition of Pancreatic fibrosis
1. Noun. The most common congenital disease; the child's lungs and intestines and pancreas become clogged with thick mucus; caused by defect in a single gene; no cure is known.
Generic synonyms: Monogenic Disease, Monogenic Disorder, Fibrosis
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pancreatic Fibrosis
Literary usage of Pancreatic fibrosis
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. St. Mary's Hospital Gazette by St. Mary's Hospital (London, England) (1904)
"... marked instances of pancreatic fibrosis I have met with have been in cases of
alcoholic subjects. ..."
2. The Oxford Medicine by Henry Asbury Christian, James Mackenzie (1920)
"... cardiac hypertrophy; pancreatic fibrosis with metaplasia of duct epithelium;
chronic passive congestion of viscera; thrombosis of cardiac, renal, ..."
3. Manual of pathology: Including Bacteriology, the Technic of Postmortems, and by William Michael Late Coplin (1900)
"Chronic pancreatitis, pancreatic sclerosis, indicative pancreatitis, and pancreatic
fibrosis are names given to a chronic process involving the pancreas and ..."
4. A Treatise on the principles and practice of medicine by Arthur Robin Edwards (1907)
"... in pancreatic fibrosis with pancreatic calculi due to stasis and i tion; or (d)
rarely in glycosuria. t ..."
5. Alcohols Effect on Organ Function edited by Dianne M. Welsh (1997)
"Furthermore, autopsy studies demonstrated evidence of pancreatic fibrosis in
alcoholics who had no history of clinical pancreatitis. ..."
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