cystic fibrosis

Questions about cystic fibrosis

What is another word for cystic fibrosis?

It depends which cystic fibrosis you mean. In the sense “the most common hereditary 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”, the synonyms are CF, fibrocystic disease of the pancreas, pancreatic fibrosis, mucoviscidosis. Across all 1 sense there are 4 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of cystic fibrosis?

WordNet records no antonym for cystic fibrosis. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for cystic fibrosis come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of cystic fibrosis

• Full entry for cystic fibrosisAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for cystic fibrosisWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
• Thesaurus homeHow WordNet synsets work, and the collections built for synonym work.