fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva

English

Etymology

(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin; translatable as "the replacement of tissue (fibrodysplasia) with bone (ossificans) that gets worse over time (progressiva)."

Noun

fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva (uncountable)

1. (pathology) A very rare disease of the connective tissue in which fibrous tissue (including muscle, tendon, and ligament) becomes ossified when damaged.
   • 2007 June 18, Ginia Bellafante, “Doctor, Give Me the News, and Sew Me Up Pretty”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     This year that show 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.

Translations

disease in which fibrous tissue becomes ossified when damaged

• Portuguese: fibrodisplasia ossificante progressiva f
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• Romanian: fibrodisplazie osificantă progresivă f