Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun cystic_fibrosis

1 sense of cystic fibrosis

Sense 1
cystic fibrosis, CF, fibrocystic disease of the pancreas, pancreatic fibrosis, mucoviscidosis -- (the most common congenital disease; the child's lungs and intestines and pancreas become clogged with thick mucus; caused by defect in a single gene; no cure is known)
       => fibrosis -- (development of excess fibrous connective tissue in an organ)
       => monogenic disorder, monogenic disease -- (an inherited disease controlled by a single pair of genes)