Composed of or containing both fibrous tissue and calcium deposits; characterized by fibrous tissue that has calcified.
From fibro- (fiber) + calcareous (Latin calcarius, relating to calcium). This pathology term describes degenerative tissue changes.
Fibrocalcareous tissue is basically fossilized—your body's attempt to wall off problem areas backfired and now you have hardened, inflexible tissue that's almost like bone in the wrong places.
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