FIBRO-PLASTIC

adj. Fi"bro-pla2st'i2k. Lat., fibro plastic us (from fibra, a fibre, and irA a<rcrei.v, to mold). Fr., fibro-plastique. Ger., fib i-oplastisch. Characterized by the formation of fibres (said of neoplasms); of Lebert, fibro-sarcomatous. [' Arch. gen. de m6d.," Jan., 1853, p. 105.] According to Ziegler, the term was formerly applied erroneously to actinomycotic tumors, [a, 34.] [s. 51]