fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva
/ˌfaɪbɹoʊdɪsˈpleɪʒ(i)ə ɒˈsɪfɪkænz pɹəˈɡɹɛsɪvə/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.66 in modern English
57
Scrabble Score
35
Letters
11
Syllables
16
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A very rare, disabling genetic disorder of the connective tissue in which fibrous tissue (including ligaments, muscles, and tendons) ossifies (“transforms into bone”) when damaged.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "The cardinal manifestations of fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva are microdactyly and progressive ossification of fascia, [aponeuroses], and other fibrous structures related to muscles."
- "Fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva (FOP) is a rare autosomal dominant disorder of skeletal malformations and progressive extraskeletal ossification. We mapped FOP to chromosome 2q23-24 by linkage analysis and identified an identical heterozygous mutation (617G → A; R206H) in the glycine-serine (GS) activation domain of ACVR1, a BMP type I receptor, in all affected individuals examined."
- "This year that show [Grey's Anatomy] featured a story about a patient with fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva, a disorder in which damaged muscles and connective tissue turn to bone, forming, essentially, a second skeleton."
- "A mother of a one-year-old girl with an illness that turns muscle into bone has urged the government to do more to help research into rare conditions. Lexi Robins, of Hemel Hempstead has the very rare condition Fibrodysplasia Ossificans Progressiva (FOP)."
Etymology
PIE word *h₃ésth₁ From English fibrodysplasia, and borrowed from New Latin ossificans + Latin prōgressīvā, literally “abnormal development of fibrous tissue with ossification that is progressive”: * Fibrodysplasia is derived from fibro- (prefix meaning ‘fibre; fibrous’) (from Latin fibra (“fibre; filament”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeyd- (“to split”)) + dysplasia (“abnormal development of cells or tissue”) (from dys- (prefix meaning ‘abnormal; disease’) + -plasia (suffix meaning ‘formation; growth’)). * Ossificans is from Latin ossīs (a plural form of ossum (“bone”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₃ésth₁ (“bone”)) + -ficāns (the present active participle of -ficō (suffix forming chiefly causative or factitive verbs)). * Prōgressīvā is the ablative feminine singular of prōgressīvus (“progressive”), from prōgressus (“advanced, proceeded; developed, progressed”) (the perfect active participle of prōgredior (“to advance, proceed; (figurative) to develop, progress”), from prō- (prefix denoting a forward direction) + gradior (“to step; to walk; to advance”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gʰredʰ- (“to go; to walk”))) + -īvus (suffix forming adjectives). The disease was originally termed myositis ossificans progressiva in 1868. The use of fibrodysplasia in place of myositis was suggested by K. H. Bauer and W. Bode in 1940, and adopted by the American medical geneticist Victor A. McKusick (1921–2008) in his work Heritable Disorders of Connective Tissue (1956).
Origin
- Source language: Latin
Word Breakdown
- Root: *bʰeyd-, ossificans, prōgressīvā, fibra, ossīs, *h₃ésth₁
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˌfaɪbɹoʊdɪsˈpleɪʒ(i)ə ɒˈsɪfɪkænz pɹəˈɡɹɛsɪvə/
- British English: /ˌfaɪbɹəʊdɪsˈpleɪzɪə ɒˈsɪfɪkɑːnz pɹəˈɡɹɛsɪvə/