fibrous

• “# -- Sometimes the fragments become united by a dense band of fibrous tissue, and the reparative process goes no further -- _fibrous union_.”

  Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition.

• “When the fibrous stroma is greatly in excess -- _fibrous goitre_ -- the swelling is smaller, firmer, and shows a greater tendency to contract and compress the trachea.”

  Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition.

• “It presents," added the doctor, "all the indications of what we call a fibrous tumor.”

  Danger

• “Instead, the titanium is simply encapsulated in fibrous tissue.”

  Wooden bones

• “They therefore tend to become fibrous, which is why asparagus and broccoli stems often need to be peeled before cooking, celery and cardoon stalks deveined.”

  Simon & Schuster: On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen

• “The roots of each look like a little bundle of strings or fibers, and are therefore called fibrous; the stalks you will find jointed and hollow; and the leaves are long and narrow, tapering to a point at their ends.”

  New National Fourth Reader

• “The outer sac, known as the fibrous pericardium, consists of fibrous tissue.”

  V. Angiology. 4a. The Pericardium

• “Hence the latter have also been called fibrous or muscular layers.”

  The Evolution of Man — Volume 1

• “In fresh bones, the acid removes the hard mineral, leaving only organic material such as fibrous connective tissue, blood vessels and various cells.”

  300 secular students visit Ken Ham's Creation “Museum” - The Panda's Thumb

• “The salads were both pretty bad -- the artichokes were kind of fibrous along some edges, which is not right, and the dressing on the octopus was fishy in a bad way.”

  Archive 2008-03-01

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