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• n  inflammation of white fibrous tissues (especially muscle sheaths)

• Symptoms most often resemble those of fibrositis and the two are often confused.
• So did Australia, shortly afterward, when tissue-swelling fibrositis crippled its sports hero, Cricketer Don Bradman.
• The elephants of the Bertram Mills circus in London were in a painful fix with fibrositisthickening of the trunk muscles.