A cell that produces collagen and other fibers to form connective tissue, crucial for wound healing and tissue structure.
From fibro- (fiber) + -blast (Greek blastos, germ or bud, meaning a cell that produces). This term emerged in the late 1800s with cellular biology.
Fibroblasts are basically your body's construction workers—whenever you get a cut or scar, these cells swarm the area and build a collagen scaffold to hold everything together.
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