fibro-adenia

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English

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Etymology

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From fibro- +‎ -adenia.

Noun

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fibro-adenia (countable and uncountable, plural fibro-adenias)

  1. (medicine) The growth of fibrous tissue on a gland.
    • 1923, International Medical Digest, page 316:
      In disease of the spleen, especially Banti's disease or fibro-adenia of the spleen, the increase of leukocytes is absent or slight, with no relative lymphocytosis.
    • 1931, Alfred Piney, Recent Advances in Haematology, page 280:
      The more advanced the disease, the larger the number of follicles affected by fibro-adenia, but it is rare to find.
    • 1937, George Blumer, The Practitioners Library of Medicine and Surgery:
      For the conception that there is a special form of cirrhosis secondary to splenic fibro-adenia, Banti is largely responsible.