different between fibrosis vs fiber

English

Etymology

fibro- +? -osis

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /fa??b?o?s?s/

Noun

fibrosis (countable and uncountable, plural fibroses)

1. (medicine) The formation of (excess) fibrous connective tissue in an organ.

Derived terms

• cystic fibrosis
• fibrotic
• hepatofibrosis
• hyperfibrosis
• microfibrosis
• steatofibrosis

Translations

See also

• alanine aminotransferase

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fi?b?osis/, [fi????o.sis]

Noun

fibrosis f (uncountable)

1. (medicine) fibrosis

Derived terms

• fibrosis quística
• fibrótico

Further reading

• “fibrosis” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

English

Alternative forms

• fibre (chiefly British)

Etymology

From French fibre, from Old French, from Latin fibra

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?fa?.b?/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?fa?.b?/
• Rhymes: -a?b?(r)

Noun

fiber (countable and uncountable, plural fibers) (American spelling)

1. (countable) A single elongated piece of a given material, roughly round in cross-section, often twisted with other fibers to form thread.

2. (uncountable) A material in the form of fibers.

3. (textiles) A material whose length is at least 1000 times its width.

4. Dietary fiber.

5. (figuratively) Moral strength and resolve.

6. (mathematics) The preimage of a given point in the range of a map.

   Holonyms: bundle, fiber bundle

   Meronym: germ

7. (category theory) Said to be of a morphism over a global element: The pullback of the said morphism along the said global element.
8. (computing) A kind of lightweight thread of execution.

Derived terms

Translations

Anagrams

• FBIer, brief, fibre

Danish

Noun

fiber c (definite singular fiberen, indefinite plural fibre, definite plural fibrene)

1. fibre (UK), fiber (US)

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *b?éb?rus. Doublet of beber.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?fi.ber/, [?f?b?r]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?fi.ber/, [?fi?b?r]

Noun

fiber m (genitive fibr?); second declension

1. beaver

Declension

Second-declension noun (nominative singular in -er).

Synonyms

• castor (more common), beber (Late Latin)

Derived terms

• fibr?nus

References

• fiber in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Latin fibra (“fiber, filament”), possibly from *fidber or *findber, from Proto-Indo-European *b?eyd- (“to split”).

Noun

fiber m (definite singular fiberen, indefinite plural fibere or fibre or fibrer, definite plural fiberne or fibrene)

1. fibre (UK), fiber (US)

Derived terms

References

• “fiber” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

fiber m (definite singular fiberen, indefinite plural fibrar, definite plural fibrane)

1. fibre (UK), fiber (US)

Derived terms

• fiberoptisk
• fiberrik
• karbonfiber
• naturfiber

References

• “fiber” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Swedish

Noun

fiber c

1. fibre (UK), fiber (US)

Declension