fibrocystic disease of the pancreas

Questions about fibrocystic disease of the pancreas

What is another word for fibrocystic disease of the pancreas?

It depends which fibrocystic disease of the pancreas 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 cystic fibrosis, CF, 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 fibrocystic disease of the pancreas?

WordNet records no antonym for fibrocystic disease of the pancreas. 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 fibrocystic disease of the pancreas 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 fibrocystic disease of the pancreas

• Full entry for fibrocystic disease of the pancreasAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for fibrocystic disease of the pancreasWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
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