fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva

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fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva (uncountable)

(medicine) A very rare disease of the connective tissue in which fibrous tissue (including muscle, tendon, and ligament) becomes ossified when damaged.
- 2007 June 18, Ginia Bellafante, “Doctor, Give Me the News, and Sew Me Up Pretty”, in New York Times‎:
  This year that show featured a story about a patient with fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva, a disorder in which damaged muscles and connective tissue turn to bone, forming, essentially, a second skeleton.

disease in which fibrous tissue becomes ossified when damaged

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