fibrosis (fibrosis)

[NL., Changes were found in the inferior cervical ganglia, indicating atrophy and fibrosis . Medical News , LII. 495. Arteriocapillary fibrosis. See arteriocapillary . Fibros pong iæ (fi-bro-spon'ji-ē), n . pl . [NL., fibra , fiber, + spongia , sponge.] One of the principal divisions of the Porifer a or Spongida ; the fibrous sponges. They present the utmost diversity of form, but agree in the po e ion of a fibrous skeleton or ceratode, which may be highly developed and devoid of silicious spicules, as in the commercial sponges, or inconspicuous in comparison with the richly elaborated and complicated silicious frames of such genera as Hyalo nema and Euplectella , the gla -sponges. See cut under Euplectella . fibrous (fi'brus), a. [= F. fibreux = = Sp. hebro IMG:content-1265.png:[blocks in formation] The plentious Pastures, and the purling Springs, Whose fibrous silver you sand Tributes brings To wealthy Iordan. Sylvester, tr. of Du Bartas's Weeks, ii., The Vocation. The space between these [muscle-cells) and the outer face of the intestine is occupied by a spongy or fibrous substance, which must probably be regarded as a kind of connective ti ue. Huxley , Anat. Invert., p. 546, Fibrous coal. See coal. - Fibrous cone. Same as co ron a radiata (which see, under corona ). Fibrous mycelium. See mycelium. Fibrous structure, in mineral., a structure characterized by fine or slender threads, either straight or curved, parallel, diverging, or stellated. Asbestos has, for example, a jibrous structure. - Fibrous ti ue, the general common connective ti ue of the body, composed or largely consisting of white inelastic or yellow elastic fibers, such as the periosteum of bones, the perichondrium of cartilage, the capsules of glands, the meninges of the brain, the ligaments of joints, and the fasciæ and tendons of muscles. The phrase is sometimes extended to other and special ti ues, as the nervous and muscular, which contain or consist of fibers or filaments.