Cirrhosis occurs when normal tissue becomes replaced by fibrous material similar to scar tissue.

It works by mashing up the fibrous material into a porridge.

The cardiac cells may be replaced with fibrous material that reduces efficiency, and the heart's electrical conductivity can change, leading to an uneven heartbeat, or arrhythmia.

Their main advantages are of relative strength and of being less likely to jam with fibrous material.

Each column consists of lines of blood vessels and urinary tubes and a fibrous material.

They used the cells to coat a sponge-like scaffold, made from collagen (a fibrous protein) and placed it inside the tear in the cartilage.

Scutes are made up of the fibrous protein keratin that also makes up the scales of other reptiles.

She holds a patent on fibrous protein fusions and use thereof in the formation of advanced organic/inorganic composite materials.

These are fibrous proteins that provide a support structure to the skin, giving it a firm, youthful appearance.

Globular proteins frequently assume a stable structure, unlike fibrous proteins, which have multiple conformations.

Spherical groups with a radially fibrous structure and bristled with crystals on the surface are not uncommon.

It forms soft, dark brownish-black masses with a confused fibrous structure.

They may also occur as stellate (star-shaped) groups, or encrustations with a bladed or fibrous structure.

Exposure to long periods of low relative humidities (below 40%) can cause leather to become desiccated, irreversibly changing the fibrous structure of the leather.

Other examples of felted material in animal structures include fibrous structures coating the integument of some insects.

The clot stays in the lung arteries and becomes a fibrous tissue.

The lungs fill up with fibrous tissue, which traps fluid in them.

Second, she discovered that, inside, the cyst was composed almost entirely of tough, fibrous tissue.

These are hard deposits of cholesterol and fibrous tissue that build up on blood vessel walls.

A mutation of the body's repair mechanism causes fibrous tissue (including muscle, tendon, and ligament) to be ossified spontaneously or when damaged.