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fibrosis(dictionary)
Fibrosis(law)
fibrosis(medicine)
Fibrosis(health)
Retroperitoneal fibrosis(medicine)
Symmers' fibrosis(medicine)
cystic fibrosis(dictionary)
endomyocardial fibrosis(medicine)
endocardial fibrosis(medicine)

Fibrosis, radiation (health) and Hudsonian (iou)


Fibrosis, radiation (health)


Scarring of the lungs from radiation. Radiation fibrosis is a sequel of radiation pneumonitis (inflammation of the lungs due to radiation), as from radiation therapy. Radiation pneumonitis typically occurs after radiation treatments for cancer within the chest or breast and usually manifests itself 2 weeks to 6 months after completion of radiation therapy. Symptoms include shortness of breath upon activity, cough and fever. Radiation pneumonitis frequently is discovered as an incidental finding on chest x-ray in patients who have no symptoms.





Hudsonian (iou)



Hudsonian adjective. M19.
[from Hudson Bay, from its discoverer Henry Hudson (d. 1611), English navigator: see -IAN.]
Of or pertaining to Hudson Bay in Canada and the surrounding land; esp. designating the biogeographical zone represented by the territory around the bay (north of the tree line from Labrador to Alaska).
Hudsonian curlew N. Amer. a whimbrel, Numenius phaeopus (of the N. American subspecies). Hudsonian godwit a New World godwit, Limosa haemastica, breeding in NW Canada.