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Fib
Fib may refer to: Fib (poetry), a form of poetry similar to haikuFib, a Pictish kingdom, which went on to become Fife, in modern ScotlandFib, a synonym for lie FIB is an acronym that may mean one of the following: Facultat d'Informàtica de Barcelona, the Barcelona School of Informatics of the Techn..
FIBArk
FIBArk stands for "First in Boating the Arkansas" -- it's a festival that started in the 1950's when two friends bet each other who'd win a race from Salida, CO to Cotopaxi, CO, about 26 miles of whitewater. Today the festival draws over 10,000 people yearly, around the 3rd week of June, and includ..
FIBA Europe
FIBA Europe is a zone within the FIBA association which contains all 50 national European FIBA federations. ..
Fibber McGee and Molly
Jim and Marian Jordan were featured in 1947 NBC promotional art by Sam Berman. Fibber McGee and Molly was a radio show that played a major role in determining the full form of what became classic, old-time radio. The series was a pinnacle of American popular culture from its 1935 premiere unti..
Fibbin'
"Fibbin'" is also the name of an episode of the television show Absolutely Fabulous. "Fibbin'" is a popular song In the United States, the most popular version was a recording by Patti Page (Mercury Records catalog number 71355) that was made in 1958, entering the Billboard chart on September 28, ..
Fiber
For other meanings of fiber/fibre please see Fiber (disambiguation). Fiber or fibreThe spelling fibre is used in Commonwealth countries, and is sometimes used in the United States as well. is a class of materials that are continuous filaments or are in discrete elongated pieces, similar to lengths ..
Fiber-Optic Link Around the Globe
FLAG is a 28,000 kilometer long undersea fiber optic cable that connects England, Japan, and many places in between. The Europe-Asia segment was laid in the mid-1990s and was the subject of an extensive article in Wired Magazine in December, 1996 by Neal Stephenson. The cable was laid by NYNEX. La..
Fiberboard
Fiberboard is a type of engineered wood product that is made out of wood fibers. Types of fiberboard in order of increasing density include particle board, medium-density fiberboard and hardboard, also called high-density fiberboard. Fiberboard is sometimes used as a synonym for particle board, but ..
Fibered knot
A knot or link [K] in the 3-dimensional sphere [S^3] is called fibered (sometimes spelled fibred) in case there is a 1-parameter family [F_t] of Seifert surfaces for [K], where the parameter [t] runs through the points of the unit circle [S^1�..
Fibered manifold
In mathematics, a fibered manifold is a manifold M together with a surjective submersion to another manifold F. Examples Every fiber bundle is a fibered manifold. ..
Fiberglass
Bundle of fiberglass Fiberglass or fibreglass is material made from extremely fine fibers of glass. It is used as a reinforcing agent for many polymer products; the resulting composite material, properly known as fiber-reinforced polymers (FRP), is called "fiberglass" in popular usage. Glass..
Fiberglass molding
Fiberglass molding is a process in which fiberglass reinforced resin plastics are formed into useful shapes. Making a mold The plug or buck is required first to make a mold. This will be an original part that is to be copied. First the plug must be waxed with mold release wax. Depending on the desi..
Fiberotomy
A fiberotomy is a orthodontic surgical procedure designed to sever the gingival fibers around a tooth. They usually reduce the tendency for relapse of tooth rotations corrected by dental braces or other treatments. ..
Fiberscope
A fiberscope is a flexible fiber optic bundle with an eyepiece at one end, and a lens at the other. It is used for inspection work, often to examine small components in tightly packed equipment, when the inspector cannot easily access the part requiring inspection. The lens is often a wide-angle l..
FiberSkyn
FiberSkyn is the trademarked name of a synthetic plastic material in sheet form that is used in the manufacturing of drum heads by an American company called Remo. Fiberskyn consists of two layers glued together, PET film and Tyvek. The Mylar provides strength, while the Tyvek adds thickness, a les..
Fiber (computer science)
A fiber in computer science is a term for a particularly lightweight thread of execution. Like threads, fibers share address space; where a distinction exists, it is that fibers use co-operative multitasking while threads use pre-emptive multitasking. The article on threads contains more on the dis..
Fiber (disambiguation)
Fiber or Fibre may mean or refer to: Fiber, an elongated piece of material.Dietary fiberOptical fiberFiber (computer science)Image (mathematics), the inverse image of a singletonThis is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page: a list of articles associated with the same title. If an referr..
Fiber art
Fiber art is a subclassification of fine art defined by the usually exclusive use of fabrics, yarn, other natural fibers, and now synthetic fibers to focus on the properties of the material as well as the hands-on work intensive process as part of the significance of the piece. Twylene Moyer, in he..
Fiber artist
A fiber artist creates works of art from fibers of any sort, including yarn and thread. However, almost any material can be rendered into a fiber, and this fact makes for rather surprising fiber art. For example, a nun in Hamtramck, Michigan wove an eagle from silver and gold strips. Fiber artists..
Fiber Bragg grating
A Fiber Bragg grating is a type of diffraction grating segment of optical fiber that filters out particular wavelengths of light. This is achieved by altering parts of the fiber core so that their index of refraction is slightly higher than normal. As a result, the structure will transmit most wav..
Fiber bundle
In mathematics, in particular in topology, a fiber bundle (or fibre bundle) is a space which locally looks like a product of two spaces but may possess a different global structure. Every fiber bundle consists of a continuous surjective map π : E → B where small regions in the total space..
Fiber cement siding
Hardipanels on Design_Build addition, Ithaca NY([ochshornDesign.com]) Fiber cement siding is a building material used to cover the exterior of a house. Fiber cement is a composite material made of sand, cement and cellulose fibers. In appearance, fiber cement siding most often consi..
Fiber crop
Fiber crops are field crops grown for their fibers, which are used to make paper, cloth, or rope. These crops are generally havestable after a single growing season, as opposed to trees which are typically grown for many years before being harvested for wood pulp fiber. In specific circumstances, f..
Fiber diffraction
Fiber diffraction is a scattering technique in which molecular structure is determined from scattering data (usually of X-rays or electrons) from filaments composed of a regular array of molecules distinguished by a single direction (the fiber axis). The resulting diffraction patterns show layer lin..
Fiber distributed data interface
Internet protocol suite Layer Protocols Application DNS, TLS/SSL, TFTP, FTP, HTTP, IMAP, IRC, NNTP, POP3, SIP, SMTP, SNMP, SSH, TELNET, BitTorrent, RTP, rlogin, … Transport TCP, UDP, DCCP, SCTP, IL, RUDP, Network IP (IPv4, IPv6), ICMP, IGMP, ARP, RARP, … Link PPP, SLIP, FDDI, ATM, ..
Fiber in the loop
Fiber In The Loop (FITL) is a system implementing or upgrading portions of the POTS local loop with fiber optic technology from the central office of a telephone carrier to a remote Serving Area Interface (SAI) located in a neighborhood or to an Optical Network Unit (ONU) located at the customer pre..
Fiber laser
Ultra-fast fiber laser is a fiber based ring laser which utilizes passive mode-locking leading to ultra short pulses. A fiber based ring cavity uses a highly doped Er-fiber as gain media. Commercial applications include: Telecommunication, Information Technology, Multi-Photon-Spectroscopy, Instru..
Fiber simulation
Fiber simulation is a branch of mechanics that deals with modeling the dynamics and rheology of particles of large aspect ratio, or fibers with the goal of predicting the properties of fiber suspensions and networks based on first principles. Simulation of fiber suspensions have applications in pa..
Fiber to the curb
Fiber To The Curb or Fiber To The Cabinet (FTTC) refers to a telecomunications system based on fiber-optic cables run to a platform that serves several customers. Each of these customers has a connection to this platform via coaxial cable or twisted pair. ..
Fiber To The Node
Fiber To The Node (FTTN) is a broadband architecture that provides high speed internet and other services to the home by running fibre to the node and Very-high-bit-rate Digital Subscriber Line (VDSL) over the existing telephone copper plant to the home. This architecture is lower cost to deploy th..
Fiber to the premises
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Fibes
Fibes oh Fibes are an Swedish rock band that rose to fame in the early 2004s. Introduction Fibes, Oh Fibes! is a six piece band from Göteborg on the West coast of Sweden. Fibes, Oh Fibes! was founded in 2001 and released the EP "Fibes, Oh Fibes!" before their debut album "Still Fresh" was put ou..
Fibonacci
Leonardo of Pisa (Pisa, c. 1170 - Pisa, 1250), also known as Leonardo Pisano, Leonardo Fibonacci, or simply Fibonacci, was an Italian mathematician. He is best known for the discovery of the Fibonacci numbers, and for his role in the introduction to Europe of the modern Arabic positional decim..
Fibonacci's identity
In mathematics, the term Fibonacci's identity may refer either to the Brahmagupta-Fibonacci identity in algebra, showing that the set of all sums of two squares is closed under multiplication; or tothe Cassini and Catalan identities on Fibonacci numbers. This is a [disambiguationdisambiguation..
Fibonacci coding
In mathematics, Fibonacci coding is a universal code which encodes positive integers into binary code words. All tokens end with "11" and have no "11" before the end. The code begins as follows: 1 11 2 011 3 0011 4 1011 5 00011 6 10011 7 01011 8 000011 9 100011 10 010011 11 001011 12 101..
Fibonacci heap
In computer science, a Fibonacci heap is a data structure similar to a binomial heap but with a better amortized running time. A Fibonacci heap can be used to improve the asymptotic running time of Dijkstra's algorithm for computing shortest paths in a graph and Prim's algorithm for computing a min..
Fibonacci number
In mathematics, the Fibonacci numbers, named after Leonardo of Pisa, known as Fibonacci, form a sequence defined recursively by: [ F_n := F(n):= \begin 0 & \mbox n = 0; \\ 1 & \mbox n = 1; \\ F(n-1)+F(n-2) & \mbox n > 1. \\ \end ] In other words, afte..
Fibonacci number program
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Fibonacci polynomials
In mathematics, Fibonacci polynomials are a generalization of Fibonacci numbers. These polynomials are defined by: [F_n(x)=\left\1,\qquad\qquad\qquad\qquad&\mboxn=1\\x,\qquad\qquad\qquad\qquad&\mboxn=2\\xF_(x)+F_(x),&\mboxn\ge3\end\right.] The first few Fibonacci polynomials are: [..
Fibonacci prime
A Fibonacci prime is a Fibonacci number that is prime. The first few Fibonacci primes are 2, 3, 5, 13, 89, 233, 1597, ... Except for the case n = 4, if Fn is prime then n is prime. The converse is false, however. Fp is prime for 8 out of the first 10 primes; the exceptions are F2 = 1 and F19 = 4..
Fibonacci pseudoprime
In number theory, a pseudoprime is a number that passes some test that all primes pass, but is actually composite. A Fibonacci pseudoprime is a composite integer n that satisfies the following conditions: P > 0 and Q = +1 or −1Vn is congruent to P mod n. Here the notation refers to the Lucas ..
Fibonacci word
The Fibonacci word is a specific infinite sequence of binary digits (or symbols from any two-letter alphabet). Definition Let [S_0] be "0" and [S_1] be "01". Now [S_n = S_S_] (the concatenation of the previous sequence and the one before that). The Fibonacci word is t..
Fibrant object
In mathematics, specifically in homotopy theory in the context of a model category M, a fibrant object A of M is an object that has a fibration to the terminal object of the category. Properties The fibrant objects of a closed model category are characterized by having a right lifting property wit..
Fibras Industriales
Fibras Industriales S.A., comercialy known as FISA is the largest multi-filament fishing net manufacturer in the Western hemisphere. FISA has more than 60 years of experience in the market, developing products for use in purse seine fishing, trawling, long line fishing, gillnet fishing, fish and she..
Fibras Industriales S.A.
Fibras Industriales S.A., comercialy known as FISA (www.fisa.com.pe) is the largest multi-filament fishing net manufacturer in the western hemisphere. FISA has more than 60 years of experience in the market, developing products for use in purse seine fishing, trawling, long line fishing, gillnet fis..
Fibrate
In pharmacology, the fibrates are a class of amphipathic carboxylic acids. They are used for a range of metabolic disorders, mainly hypercholesterolemia (high cholesterol), and are therefore hypolipidemic agents. Contents 1 Members2 Uses3 Side-effects4 Pharmacology5 See a..
Fibration
In algebraic topology, a fibration is a continuous mapping E → B satisfying the homotopy lifting property with respect to any space. Fiber bundles constitute important examples; but in homotopy theory any mapping is 'as good as' a fibration - i.e. any map can be decomposed as a homotopy equivale..
Fibre-reinforced moulding
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Fibre-reinforced plastic
Fibre-reinforced plastic (FRP) (also Fibre-reinforced polymer) is a composite material comprising a polymer matrix reinforced with fibres. The fibers are usually fiberglass, carbon, or aramid, while the polymer is usually an epoxy, vinylester or polyester thermosetting plastic. FRPs are commonly use..
Fibre Channel
Fibre Channel is a gigabit speed network technology primarily used for Storage Networking. Fibre Channel is standardized in the T11 Technical Committee of the InterNational Committee for Information Technology Standards (INCITS), an American National Standard Institute (ANSI) accredited standards co..
Fibre Channel 8B/10B encoding
The Fibre Channel FC1 data link layer implements the 8b/10b encoding and decoding of signals. The Fibre Channel 8B/10B coding scheme is also used in other telecommunications systems. Data is expanded using an algorithm that creates one of two possible 10-bit output values for each input 8-bit valu..
Fibre Channel electrical interface
The Fibre Channel electrical interface is one of two related standards that can be used to physically interconnect computer devices. The other standard is a Fibre Channel optical interface, which is not covered by this article. Contents 1 Fibre Channel signal characteristics2 Fibre Cha..
Fibre Channel fabric
A Fibre Channel fabric is a switched fabric network of Fibre Channel devices enabled by a Fibre Channel switch using the FC-SW topology. Fabrics are normally subdivided by Fibre Channel zoning. Each fabric has a name server and provides other services. ..
Fibre Channel Logins
Fibre Channel logins takes place after a link is operational. There are three different types of logins in Fibre Channel technology: Fabric Login (FLOGI)Port Login (PLOGI)Procces Login (PRLI) In the Login process different operational parameters are exchanged: FC-PH version supportClasses of service..
Fibre Channel network protocols
Communication between devices in a fibre channel network uses different elements of the Fibre Channel standards. The following sections introduce the main concepts and show how a combination of primitives and frames is required. Contents 1 Transmission words and ordered sets2 AL_PAs3..
Fibre Channel over IP
Fibre Channel over IP (FCIP or FC/IP, also known as Fibre Channel tunneling or storage tunneling), is an Internet Protocol (IP)-based storage networking technology developed by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). FCIP mechanisms enable the transmission of Fibre Channel (FC) information by tu..
Fibre Channel switch
A Fibre Channel switch is a computer storage device that allows the creation of a Fibre Channel fabric. This fabric is a network of Fibre Channel devices which allows many-to-many communication, device name lookup, security, and redundancy. Major manufacturers of Fibre Channel switches are: Brocade..
Fibre Channel time out values
The FC-PH standard defines three time-out values used for error detection and recovery: E_D_TOV, R_A_TOV, and R_T_TOV. E_D_TOV stands for Error Detect TimeOut Value. This is the basic error timeout used for all Fibre Channel error detection. Its default value is 2 seconds. R_A_TOV stands for Res..
Fibre Channel Utility
Fibre Channel Utility is a Mac OS X Server utility for managing Fibre Channels connected to the server. The program will not run without a Fiber Card installed in the server. This server tool is only installed in Mac OS X Server. Mac OS X Applications Activity Monitor · Address Book · AirPo..
Fibre Channel zoning
Fibre Channel zoning has a similar meaning to other uses of the word - it focuses certain groups of resources together. In Fibre Channel, zoning is the partitioning of a fabric (or storage area network) into smaller subsets to restrict interference, add security, and to simplify management. If a S..
Fibre Metal Laminate
A Fibre Metal Laminate (or FML) is one of a class of metallic materials consisting of a laminate of several thin metal layers bonded with layers of composite material. This allow the material to behave much as a simple metal structure, but with considerable specific advantages regarding properties s..
Fibre optic gyroscope
--> A fibre optic gyroscope (FOG) contains a coil with a long (up to 5 km) wound optical fiber (3). Two light beams travel along the fiber in opposite directions. An optical system with a beam splitter (2) directs the beams on a photodetector (4). When the attitude rate is zero, the phase shift be..
Fibre reinforced concrete
Fibre reinforced concrete (Generally Fibre reinforced concrete is called FRC)is a concrete mix that contains short discrete fibres that are uniformly distributed and randomly oriented.Fibres include steel fibres, glass fibres, synthetic fibres and natural fibres. Within these different fibres that c..
Fibril
Fibril is a fine fiber approximately 1 nm in diameter. Cytoplasmic fibrils are observed on the protoplasmic cylinders found in most spirochetal species, although no function of the cytoplasmic fibrils has been ascribed. ..
Fibrillation
Fibrillation is the rapid, irregular, and unsynchronized contraction of the muscle fibers of the heart. There are two major classes of fibrillation, atrial fibrillation and ventricular fibrillation. Atrial fibrillation can be a chronic condition, usually treated with anticoagulation and sometimes w..
Fibrillin
Fibrillin is a glycoprotein, which is essential for the formation of elastic fibres found in connective tissue. Fibrillin-1 is a major component of the microfibrils that form a sheath surrounding the amorphous elastin. It is believed that the microfibrils are composed of end-to-end polymers of fibr..
Fibrillogenesis
Fibrillogenesis is the development of fine fibrils normally present in collagen fibers of connective tissue. It is derived from the Greek fibrillo (meaning fibrils, or pertaining to fibrils) and genesis (to create, the process by which something is created). ..
Fibrin
460mg/dL Cost: $US 100 How to lower: Exercise, B-complex Vitamins, Omega-3 fatty acids, spices (curcumin, ginger root, turmeric) source: Beyond Cholesterol, Julius Torelli MD, 2005 ISBN 0-312-34863-0 p.56 Fibrinogen as a marker of inflammation in horses Fibrinogen is used by equine veterinary surge..
Fibrinoid
This type of necrosis is confined to inflammation of the arteries and often presents with vasculitis (primary inflammation of vessels) and hypertenstion. Fibrin deposition occurs in damaged necrotic vessel walls. At times, small arteries and arterioles are severely damaged in malignant hypertension..
Fibrinolysis
Fibrinolysis is the process where a fibrin clot, the product of coagulation, is broken down. Its main enzyme, plasmin, cuts the fibrin mesh at various places, leading to the production of circulating fragments that are cleared by other proteinases or by the kidney and liver. Contents 1 Physi..
Fibrin sealant
A Fibrin sealant (also called fibrin glue) is a type of surgical tissue adhesive that is used during surgery to control bleeding. It is derived from human and animal blood products. External links [Surgery Encyclopedia: Fibrin sealants] ..
Fibroadenoma
Fibroadenoma of the breast is a benign tumor characterized by proliferation of both glandular and stromal elements. Most often it appears before age 30 as a result of estrogenic hormonal excess. Usually the tumor is solitary, multiple tumors being rare. The tumor is mobile to adjacent structures: s..
Fibrobacteres
Fibrobacteres is a small bacterial phylum which includes many of the major rumen bacteria, allowing for the degradation of plant-based cellulose in ruminant animals. Members of this phylum were categorized in other phyla; specifically the genus Fibrobacter (the primary genus of Fibrobacteres) was ..
Fibroblast
A fibroblast is a cell that makes the structural fibers and ground substance of connective tissue. Description Fibroblasts have a branched cytoplasm surrounding an elliptical, speckled nucleus having 1 or 2 nucleoli. Active fibroblasts can be recognized by their abundant rough endoplasmic reticu..
Fibroblast growth factor
Fibroblast growth factor, or FGF, is a family growth factors involved in wound healing. FGF proteins bind heparin. As of 2005, there are 23 known members of the FGF family that are structurally related signaling molecules (named FGF1, FGF2, FGF3, and so on). These molecules in turn bind to a fami..
Fibroblast growth factor 23
Fibroblast growth factor 23 or FGF23 is gene which is a member of the fibroblast growth factor family and encodes a protein which is responsible for phosphate metabolism. FGF23 is located on chromosome 12 and is composed of three exons. Mutations in FGF23 which cause failure of proper gene splicing ..
Fibroblast growth factor receptor
The fibroblast growth factor receptors consist of an extracellular ligand domain comprised of three immunoglobulin-like domains, a transmembrane domain, and an intracellular domain with tyrosine kinase activity. Immunoglobulin-like domains II and III are sufficient for FGF binding. In humans, there ..
Fibrocartilage callus
A fibrocartilage callus is a temporary formation of fibroblasts and chondroblasts which forms at the area of a bone fracture as the bone attempts to heal itself. The cells eventually dissipate and become dormant, laying in the resulting extracellular matrix that is the new bone. See also: bone he..
Fibrodysplasia
Fibrodysplasia may refer to: Fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva, a rare disease in which fibrous tissue such as muscle turns to bone when damaged.Fibromuscular dysplasia, a disease characterized by the fibrous thickening of the renal artery.Fibrous dysplasia, a disease that causes growths or les..
Fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva
Fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva (FOP), is a rare disease of the connective tissue. A mutation of the body's repair mechanism causes fibrous tissue (including muscle, tendon, and ligament) to be ossified (turned to bone) when damaged. In many cases they can cause joints to become permanently f..
Fibroepithelial neoplasms
Fibroepithelial neoplasms (or tumors) are tumors with both epithelial and fibrous character. They are categorized between 9000 and 9030 in ICD-O. Examples include: Brenner tumorfibroadenomaPhyllodes tumor External links MeSH [Neoplasms Fibroepithelial Neoplasms]eMedicine [derm/346&..
Fibroid
This is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page: a list of articles associated with the same title. If an referred you to this page, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Fibroid is a term used for two different types of tumors: Fibroids is the com..
Fibroma
Soft Fibroma (fibroma molle). Fibromas (or fibroid tumors or fibroids) are benign tumors that are composed of fibrous or connective tissue. They can grow in all organs, arising from mesenchyme tissue. The term "fibroblastic" or "fibromatous" is used to describe tumors of the fibrous connect..
Fibromatosis
Fibromatosis are a group of tumour-like lesions. They have an infiltrative nature and can be locally aggressive making them difficult to completely remove. As such they can recur following surgery but they never metastasise to other parts of the body. Fibromatosis have also been known to undergo ..
Fibrominn
Fibrominn, located in Benson, Minnesota, is the first power plant under construction in the United States designed to burn poultry litter as its main source of fuel. It will produce a projected 55 megawatts of energy and will burn turkey manure combined with wood chips. Most of the energy will be pu..
Fibromuscular dysplasia
Fibromuscular dysplasia is a disease that causes renal artery stenosis, which leads to hypertension. Contents 1 Etiology2 Pathology3 Hypertension4 Symptoms5 Treatment Etiology Fibromuscular dysplasia tends to occur in females between 15 and 50 years of age. Pathology ..
Fibromyalgia
A number of practitioners are attracted to the treatment of fibromyalgia, especially because its cause has yet to be identified. While this interest may provide viable medical research, patients should be wary: treatments of dubious validity exist in the meantime. Living with fibromyalgia Fibr..
Fibromyalgia Syndrome
Redirect [[Template:Merge]]Fibromyalgia (FM or FMS) is an increasingly recognized chronic pain illness characterized by widespread musculoskeletal aches, pain and stiffness, soft tissue tenderness, general fatigue and sleep disturbances. The most common sites of pain include the neck, back, shoulder..
Fibronectin
--> Fibronectin is a high molecular weight glycoprotein containing about 5% carbohydrate that binds to receptor proteins that span the cells membrane, called integrins. In addition to integrins, they also bind extracellular matrix components such as collagen, fibrin and heparin. Fibronectin can ..
Fibropapillomatosis
Fibropapillomatosis (FP) is a disease, probably caused by a herpes-type virus, causing an epidemic amongst sea turtles. ..
Fibrosarcoma
Fibrosarcoma (fibroblastic sarcoma) is a malignant tumor derived from fibrous connective tissue and characterized by immature proliferating fibroblasts or undifferentiated anaplastic spindle cells. Contents 1 Pathology2 Fibrosarcoma in dogs and cats3 References4 See also5&nbs..
Fibrosa Spolka Akcyjna v. Fairbairn Lawson Combe Barbour
Fibrosa Spolka Akcyjna v. Fairbairn Lawson Combe Barbour [1942] 2 All E.R. 122, [1943] A.C. 32, also known as the Fibrosa case, is a leading English decision of the House of Lords on contract law and the doctrine of frustration. Background Fibrosa, a Polish company, agreed to buy..
Fibrosis
Fibrosis is the formation or development of excess fibrous connective tissue in an organ or tissue as a reparative or reactive process, as opposed to formation of fibrous tissue as a normal constituent of an organ or tissue. Fibrosis-related diseases: Cystic fibrosis of the pancreas and lungsEndo..
Fibrous cap
The fibrous cap is a layer of fibrous connective tissue, which is thicker and less cellular than the normal intima. The fibrous cap contains macrophages and smooth muscle cells. The fibrous cap of an atheroma is composed of smooth muscle cells, macrophages, foam cells, lymphocytes, collagen and elas..
Fibrous connective tissue
In zootomy, fibrous connective tissue (FCT) is a type of connective tissue which has relatively high tensile strength, due to a relatively high concentration of collagenous fibers. Such tissues form ligaments and tendons; the majority of the tissue does not contain living cells, the tissue is primar..
Fibrous dysplasia
Fibrous dysplasia is a disease that causes growths or lesions in one or more bones of the human body. These lesions are tumor-like growths that consist of replacement of the medullary bone with fibrous tissue, causing the expansion and weakening of the areas of bone involved. Especially when inv..
Fibrous protein
Fibrous proteins, also called scleroproteins, are long filamentous protein molecules that form one of the two main classes of tertiary structure protein (the other being globular proteins). Fibrous proteins are only found in animals. Fibrous proteins form 'rod' or 'wire' -like shapes and are usuall..
Fibrous rings
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Fibrous root system
A fibrous root system (sometimes also called adventitious root system) is the opposite of a tap root system. It is usually formed by thin, moderately branching roots growing from the stem. A fibrous root system is universal in monocotyledonous plants and ferns, and is also common in dicotyledonous..
Fibula
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Fibularis brevis
The Peronæus brevis lies under cover of the Peronæus longus, and is a shorter and smaller muscle. It arises from the lower two-thirds of the lateral surface of the body of the fibula; medial to the Peronæus longus; and from the intermuscular septa separating it from the adjacent muscles on the..
Fibularis longus
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Fibularis tertius
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Fibular collateral ligament
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Fib (poetry)
Fib is a form of poetry similar to haiku, but based on the Fibonacci sequence. The classic fib is a six line, 20 syllable poem with a syllable count by line of 1/1/2/3/5/8. The only restriction on a Fib is that the syllable count follow the Fibonacci sequence. An example of a classic fib: One Small..
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