fibrositisn.
/ˌfʌɪbrə(ʊ)ˈsʌɪtᵻs/, U.S. /ˌfaɪbrəˈsaɪdᵻs/ Pathology.
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.
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cirrhosis1839
cellulitis1849
parenchymatitis1857
serositis1892
fasciitis1893
Pick's disease1900
polyserositis1900
pseudocirrhosis1900
fibrositis1904
mucositis1958
1904 W. 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’.
1910 Lancet 12 Mar. 713/2 Muscular rheumatism.—This affection is always a fibrositis.
1910 Lancet 12 Mar. 713/2 Muscular fibrositis of the shoulder.
1915 Llewellyn & 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’.
1963 Lancet 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’.
Derivatives
fibroˈsitic adj. of, pertaining to, or suffering from fibrositis.
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cellulitic1868
fibrositic1926
1926 Thomson & Gordon Chronic Rheumatic Dis. iii. 17 The fibrositic change is associated with a certain amount of myxœdema.
1969 W. S. C. Copeman Textbk. Rheumatic Dis. (ed. 4) xviii. 507 ‘Weather sensitivity’ in the fibrositic patient.
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