Sentence examples for fibrous scar from inspiring English sources

Healed lung tissue becomes a fibrous scar unable to perform respiratory duties.

There is overgrowth of the glands, expansion of the ducts, an extensive blood supply, inflammatory fluids, and a progressive replacement of the degenerated tissue with fibrous scar tissue.

If a lung remains collapsed for a long period, the respiratory tissue is replaced by fibrous scar tissue, and respiratory function cannot be restored.

Repair, which occurs when tissue damage is substantial or the normal tissue architecture cannot be regenerated successfully, results in the formation of a fibrous scar.

Initially the muscle remains intact; as the infection progresses there is infiltration by white blood cells, lymph cells, and fibrous scar tissue (fibrosis).

Those fibres that regenerate become larger than normal, and eventually the muscles are totally replaced by fibrous scar tissue and fat.

In this prolonged period the erectile tissue of the penis is replaced by nonfunctioning fibrous scar tissue, so that the sufferer is rendered impotent.

In this case the abnormality is caused by the presence of fibrous (scar) tissue introduced by a disease such as amyloidosis.

Open image in new window Fig. 12 Fibrous scar.

The montage picture shows a pale disc with traction band extending to the superotemporal fibrous scar.

This is due to the apparition of retractile fibrous scar tissue (Fig. 12).