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fibrositis

/ ˌfaɪbrəˈsaɪtɪs /

noun

  1. inflammation of white fibrous tissue, esp that of muscle sheaths

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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And soon another theory added to the confusion: that fibrositis was rooted in the psyche.

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The condition is popularly known as “stiff neck,” and is probably associated with fibrositis of the affected muscles.

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In pleurodynia—intercostal fibrositis—the pain is in the line of the intercostal nerves, and is excited by movement of the chest, as in coughing, or by any bodily exertion.

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In 1880 an American neurologist had attributed what would come to be called fibrositis to the stress and anxiety of modern life.

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One group suggested fibrositis be called “psychogenic rheumatism”; another claimed it arose “independently of gross anatomical disease…”

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