pancreatic fibrosis

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   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

   Synonymscystic fibrosisCFfibrocystic disease of the pancreasmucoviscidosis

   Broaderfibrosismonogenic disorder

Questions about pancreatic fibrosis

What does pancreatic fibrosis mean?

pancreatic fibrosis means "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".

What is another word for pancreatic fibrosis?

Close synonyms include cystic fibrosis, CF, fibrocystic disease of the pancreas, mucoviscidosis. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is pancreatic fibrosis a common word?

pancreatic fibrosis is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.