My dictionary says: "Easily crumbled, brittle" Friable means - easily reduced to powder. It is most often used in the context of surgery to describe tissue that is diseased/weak/thin.
It rips easily.
It causes narrowing of the small blood vessels in tissues, resulting in an increase in blood pressure
Several enzymes released by the amoeba are able to dissolve the host's tissues, giving access to the brain. Once in the brain, the amoeba causes damage
Hyperthermia affects cells tissues and organismal level in adverse ways. The high temperatures that are not regulated often causes damage to the tissue cells.
The sense of friable is "can be easily grinded".
Dry friable soil, poor agricultural techniques and the moment of air heated by the Sun.
Yes, any non-friable form of asbestos can become friable. Some kinds can become friable simply through aging, weathering, or normal use. Others become friable if worked with power tools, producing dust that is "friable" if allowed to accumulate without being captured and removed from the work area.
A friable callus is a collection of tissue in excess of normal that can be scraped or crumbled away.
It can be crushed into dust
A friable callus is a callus formation that has grown with the cells further apart. When a callus is not friable, it is dense and compact and when it is used to regenerate plant tissue, it grows into a lump and doesn't grow to a viable plant. A friable callus, however, allows the regenerating tissue to grow suspensions.
Friable asbestos is material that contains asbestos fibers and that can be crumbled into dust in the hand without the use of tools.
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A friable colon is one that is easily upset or irritated. It can become swollen and could lead to colon disease.
"Friable" describes the condition of tissue that is easily broken or torn. That can be the result of infection or damage to the tissue from injury or disease. For example, the skin of a scleroderma patient that it is very taut and "stretched thin" can be easily damaged. That tissue would be called friable.