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fibrositis Path.|faɪbrəʊˈsaɪtɪs|
[f. fibrose a. + -itis.]
Any rheumatic disorder of the white fibrous tissue that is of unknown or uncertain cause and is characterized chiefly by pain; inflammation of white fibrous tissue. Hence fibroˈsitic a., of, pertaining to, or suffering from fibrositis.
1904W. R. Gowers in Brit. Med. Jrnl. 16 Jan. 118/2, I think we need a designation for inflammation of the fibrous tissue which has not such results [sc. the production of induration or suppuration]... We may conveniently follow the analogy of ‘cellulitis’ and term it ‘fibrositis’. 1910Lancet 12 Mar. 713/2 Muscular rheumatism.—This affection is always a fibrositis. Ibid., Muscular fibrositis of the shoulder. 1915Llewellyn & Jones Fibrositis i. 14 Herein..lies the most cogent argument that can be adduced in favour of displacement of the term ‘chronic rheumatism’ by that of ‘fibrositis’. 1926Thomson & Gordon Chronic Rheumatic Dis. iii. 17 The fibrositic change is associated with a certain amount of myxœdema. 1963Lancet 5 Jan. 56/2 Much of the pain in rheumatoid arthritis..arises..from anatomically well⁓defined areas of secondary ‘fibrositis’ which I have called the ‘critical zones’. 1969W. S. C. Copeman Textbk. Rheumatic Dis. (ed. 4) xviii. 507 ‘Weather sensitivity’ in the fibrositic patient. |