Definition of "fibroblast" [fibroblast]

• A cell that gives rise to connective tissue. (noun)

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• "By growing varicella virus in fibroblast cells it became less and less able to grow in human cells that lined the back of the throat or skin."
• "A-- a good example of this might be to take a skin cell, which would be called a fibroblast, and grow it in culture and give it the regulation that's required to make it into a nerve cell."
• "Technically, one of these cells is only called a fibroblast while the tissue is developing."