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noun
Cystic fibrosis.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
Topics: medicine, pathology, sciences
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
the most common congenital disease; the child's lungs and intestines and pancreas become clogged with thick mucus; caused by defect in a single gene; no cure is known
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: cystic fibrosis, CF, fibrocystic disease of the pancreas, pancreatic fibrosis
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: monogenic disorder, monogenic disease, fibrosis
History
From muco- + viscid + -osis.
