fibrofatty

English

Alternative forms

• fibro-fatty

Etymology

From fibro- +‎ fatty.

Adjective

fibrofatty (not comparable)

1. (biology) Relating to fibrous tissue and adipose tissue; fibrous and fatty.
   • 1996 July, Richard M. Gore, Emil J. Balthazar, Gary G. Ghahremani, Frank H. Miller, “CT Features of Ulcerative Colitis and Crohn’s Disease”, in American Journal of Roentgenology, volume 167, number 1, →DOI, page 11:

     CT occasionally can help distinguish these disorders by showing differences in wall thickness, wall density, distribution of colonic involvement, and the presence or absence of small-bowel disease, abscesses, fistulas, and mesentenic fibrofatty proliferation (Table 1).

   • 2015 June 4, Devandir Antonio de Souza Junior et al., “The Role of Mast Cell Specific Chymases and Tryptases in Tumor Angiogenesis”, in BioMed Research International‎^[1], volume 2015, →DOI:

     In the initial proliferative phase, angiogenesis in hemangiomas is excessive but is followed by spontaneous regression, and the cellular parenchyma is gradually replaced with fibrofatty tissue.

Further reading

• “fibro-fatty, adj.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.