fibrocollagenous
/ˌfaɪbɹoʊkəˈlæd͡ʒɪnəs/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
24
Scrabble Score
16
Letters
5
Syllables
13
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Comprising fibrous and collagenous components or substances; made up of fibers and collagen.
Example Sentences
- "A 46 year old man with longstanding type 1 diabetes developed major weight loss and marked deterioration in diabetic control. He had been persistently injecting insulin into areas of abdominal lipohypertrophy within which hard collagenised fibrous tissue nodules had developed. Injecting insulin at different sites dramatically improved blood glucose control. Fibrocollagenous nodules induced by insulin injections have not been previously described. Examination of a further 73 type 1 patients revealed lipohypertrophy in 44% and hard subcutaneous nodules on two."
Etymology
From fibro- + collagenous.
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
more fibrocollagenous (comparative)
most fibrocollagenous (superlative)