a. and sb. [f. FIBRE + -OID.]

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  A.  adj. Resembling fibre or fibrous tissue; fibroid change, degeneration, a morbid change into fibre or fibrous tissue.

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1852.  Paget, Surg. Pathol., ii. 155. I have proposed the name of Recurrent Fibroid tumour.

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1854.  Jones & Siev., Pathol. Anat., ii. 30. There is evidence to show that layers, and even masses of fibrine, are capable of being organized; so far, at least, as to become fibroid tissues, and that vascular networks are developed in them. Ibid. (1874), ii. 124. Fibroid degeneration is somewhat allied to induration.

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1875.  B. W. Richardson, Dis. Mod. Life, 30. The simple growths include what are known as … fibroid tumour.

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  B.  sb. Pathol. A fibroid tumour.

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1872.  Peaslee, Ovar. Tumours, 20. Scanzoni considered it an ovarian fibroid.

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1876.  Wagner’s Gen. Pathol., 385. Tumor … So-called fibroma or fibroid.

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