English Dictionary

fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva

名詞

不可算名詞

(medicine) A very rare disease of the connective tissue in which fibrous tissue (including muscle, tendon, and ligament) becomes ossified when damaged.

日本語の意味

非常に稀な結合組織の病気で、損傷後に筋肉、腱、靭帯などの線維組織が骨化する疾患。 / 繊維組織が損傷を受けた際に、異常に骨が形成される、非常にまれな病態。

After years of misdiagnoses, she finally received a definitive diagnosis of fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva from a specialist.

長年の誤診の末、専門医はようやく彼女を、筋肉・腱・靭帯などの線維組織が損傷すると骨化する、非常にまれな結合組織の疾患である進行性骨化性線維異形成症と診断した。

意味（1）

(medicine) A very rare disease of the connective tissue in which fibrous tissue (including muscle, tendon, and ligament) becomes ossified when damaged.

This year that show featured a story about a patient with fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva, a disorder in which damaged muscles and connective tissue turn to bone, forming, essentially, a second skeleton.