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Fibrosis is scar tissue that keeps building, gradually stiffening an organ and impairing how it works.
means The abnormal thickening and scarring of connective tissue in an organ, usually following injury or chronic inflammation.
from Built from the Latin 'fibra,' meaning fiber or thread (the same root gives us 'fiber' itself), plus the Greek suffix '-osis,' meaning an abnormal or diseased process. So the word is literally a diagnosis stitched together: 'fiber' plus 'condition' — a clinical label coined in 19th-century medical Latin to describe tissue that's gone thready and tough where it should be soft.
- the cause
- A healing response that does not switch off and keeps forming scar tissue
- root cause
- collagen buildup replaces working tissue permanently
- common targets
- lungs, liver, kidneys, heart all vulnerable
- no undo
- scar tissue rarely reverts back to normal