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Elastosis(medicine)
elastosis dystrophica(medicine)
solar elastosis(medicine)
elastosis perforans serpiginosa(medicine)
elastosis colloidalis conglomerata(medicine)
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Molecular(medicine)
molecular(dictionary)

molecular movement (medicine) and Elastosis (medicine)


molecular movement (medicine)


molecular movement -->
brownian movement
Erratic, nondirectional, zigzag movement observed by ultramicroscope in certain colloidal solutions and by microscope in suspensions of light particulate matter that results from the jostling or bumping of the larger particles by the molecules in the suspending medium which are regarded as being in continuous motion.

Synonym: brownian motion, brownian-Zsigmondy movement, molecular movement, pedesis.


Elastosis (medicine)


elastosis


1. Degenerative change in elastic tissue.

2. Degeneration of collagen fibres, with altered staining properties resembling elastic tissue, or formation by fibroblast-activated ultraviolet or mast cell mediators of abnormal fibres.

Synonym: elastoid degeneration, elastotic degeneration.