How to Use fibroid in a Sentence

fibroid

1 of 2 adjective

• Meaning, the type of fibroid present dictates how a patient might feel.
  — Julie Poole, Bon Appétit, 12 Jan. 2022
• Two years ago, Nikki had a major surgery to remove 12 benign fibroid tumors from her uterus.
  — New York Times, 17 Apr. 2020
• The baby's soft skull was wedged between two huge fibroid tumors growing alongside him.
  — Redbook, 30 May 2017
• No, it’s not fibroid awareness month, nor has a blockbuster film just premiered about uterine fibroids.
  — Maia Niguel Hoskin, Forbes, 30 Sep. 2021
• Black women are also more likely to have higher fibroid growth than other racial groups.
  — Claretta Bellamy, NBC News, 21 Mar. 2022
• Jewelia, 44, who asked that her last name not be used, said fibroid removal surgery scheduled at Kaiser was canceled twice because of the pandemic.
  — Hayley Smith, Los Angeles Times, 22 Feb. 2021
• The study goes on to suggest that when the levels of those two hormones are elevated, an increase in fibroid growth can often be observed.
  — Sarah Bradley, Health.com, 14 Oct. 2021
• Beauvais shared that the doctors made a shocking discovery caused by her fibroid removal that by being caught quickly, saved her life.
  — Aley Arion, Essence, 31 Mar. 2022
• While a hysterectomy is the most common way to treat fibroid tumors, women who still want to have children can have a myomectomy.
  — Sumathi Reddy, WSJ, 23 Oct. 2017
• Others assume their fibroid symptoms are being caused by something else.
  — Korin Miller, SELF, 9 May 2018
• There had been no discussion of the services that black women needed most, such as fibroid-tumor screenings, mammograms, and pre- and postnatal care.
  — Alexis Okeowo, The New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2019
• In 2010, after having surgery to remove uterine fibroid tumors, a reaction to a blood thinner actually caused her blood to clot.
  — Amy Sinatra Ayres, USA TODAY, 9 Dec. 2019
• In most cases, adds Dr. Hansard, this would involve an open incision surgery to excise the fibroid while preserving fertility.
  — Sarah Bradley, Health.com, 8 Oct. 2021
• One of those organizations is The White Dress Project, which provides fibroid awareness, raises funds for research, and supports those who are managing life with fibroids.
  — Natalie Gontcharova, refinery29.com, 30 July 2020
• At the meeting, Blithe recalls, Stratakis prohibited further clinical studies of the fibroid drug that Nieman had proposed.
  — Meredith Wadman, Science | AAAS, 2 Apr. 2020
• Similarly, certain drugs may help reduce fibroid pain and other symptoms.
  — Suzannah Weis, SELF, 21 July 2021
• Among patients having uterine fibroid embolization, studies show a 13% rate of a repeat procedure after year and 32% at five years, according to Cleveland Clinic.
  — Sarah Bradley, Health.com, 14 Oct. 2021
• But a friend suggested something else: uterine fibroid embolization.
  — al, 21 June 2022
• In November 2014, the F.D.A. went further, recommending that power morcellators not be used in the vast majority of women having fibroid surgery.
  — Denise Grady, New York Times, 24 May 2017
• The actress revealed that she was prescribed the painkiller to alleviate complications associated with her fibroid cysts.
  — Essence, 15 Oct. 2021
• Surgeons are also doing fewer hysterectomies, reflecting a growing view that the uterus does not outlive its usefulness once childbearing is done and that there are less drastic ways to address common issues such as fibroid tumors.
  — Claudia Wallis, Scientific American, 1 Mar. 2019
• Several studies have found that the controversy has reduced the rate of minimally invasive hysterectomies and fibroid removals.
  — Marie McCullough, Philly.com, 13 Aug. 2017
• What kinds of infertility can IFV treat?: Fallopian tube damage or blockage, infrequent ovulation, endometriosis, fibroid tumors, genetic disorders and other conditions.
  — Julie Washington, cleveland.com, 10 Mar. 2018
• After the procedure, O’Reilly experienced multiple medical problems — endometriosis, fibroid breast tumors requiring biopsies, painful menstrual cycles.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 23 Aug. 2019
• Meaning, the type of fibroid present dictates how a patient might feel.
  — Julie Poole, Bon Appétit, 12 Jan. 2022
• Two years ago, Nikki had a major surgery to remove 12 benign fibroid tumors from her uterus.
  — New York Times, 17 Apr. 2020
• The baby's soft skull was wedged between two huge fibroid tumors growing alongside him.
  — Redbook, 30 May 2017
• No, it’s not fibroid awareness month, nor has a blockbuster film just premiered about uterine fibroids.
  — Maia Niguel Hoskin, Forbes, 30 Sep. 2021
• Black women are also more likely to have higher fibroid growth than other racial groups.
  — Claretta Bellamy, NBC News, 21 Mar. 2022
• Jewelia, 44, who asked that her last name not be used, said fibroid removal surgery scheduled at Kaiser was canceled twice because of the pandemic.
  — Hayley Smith, Los Angeles Times, 22 Feb. 2021

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fibroid

2 of 2 noun

• At first, my doctors found two small fibroids the size of peas.
  — Chandelis Duster, CNN, 22 Mar. 2023
• The doctor had told her that her fibroids were too small to be a problem.
  — Martha Ross, The Mercury News, 6 Jan. 2017
• Uterine fibroids are benign growths that appear in or close to the uterus.
  — Sarah Bradley, Women's Health, 28 July 2023
• Some of the most common: fibroids, polyps and benign uterine growths.
  — Beth Anne MacAluso, Redbook, 27 Dec. 2017
• The particles set up a roadblock for any blood trying to reach the uterine fibroid.
  — Amanda Gardner, Health, 24 Jan. 2023
• Uterine fibroids: These are non-cancerous growths in the uterus.
  — Dr. Roshini Raj, Health, 1 June 2023
• Uterine fibroids are muscular tumors that grow in the wall of your uterus.
  — Korin Miller, SELF, 13 Dec. 2018
• Da Brat had to undergo surgery to remove fibroids and polyps to do carry the embryo.
  — Naledi Ushe, USA TODAY, 22 Feb. 2023
• Da Brat had to undergo surgery to remove fibroids and polyps to carry the embryo.
  — USA TODAY, 7 July 2023
• During the surgery, the doctor removed both endometriosis and a large fibroid.
  — The Cut, The Cut, 11 Jan. 2018
• That surgery removes fibroids while keeping the uterus intact.
  — Sumathi Reddy, WSJ, 23 Oct. 2017
• On February 16, Menounos had surgery to remove the mass, a portion of her pancreas, a large fibroid, her spleen and more than a dozen lymph nodes.
  — Morgan Hines, USA TODAY, 3 May 2023
• That’s why doctors use it to destroy uterine fibroids and some tumors.
  — Washington Post, 18 Sep. 2017
• Ovarian cysts and uterine fibroids or polyps could also be to blame.
  — Kara Wahlgren, Seventeen, 13 Dec. 2017
• But the pressure from the fibroids felt like a stack of bricks bearing down on my cervix, and to alleviate the pain, I was told to lie with my hips elevated.
  — Aileen Weintraub, Glamour, 11 May 2018
• To name one example, leiomyomas (more commonly known as fibroids) are benign tumors on the walls of the uterus.
  — Laura Kolbe, The New York Review of Books, 18 Jan. 2024
• What studies haven’t shown is that Ayurvedic medicine can treat hernias, cysts, fibroids, or endometriosis — all claims that have spread on TikTok.
  — Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 6 Oct. 2023
• Symptomatic fibroids can cause heavy bleeding, pain and pressure in the abdomen.
  — Katherine Hobson, New York Times, 18 Apr. 2020
• With my advanced age and history of fibroids, I was considered a high-risk patient.
  — The Cut, 14 Sep. 2017
• She’s since spoken about her experience dealing with fibroids in the 1980s.
  — Macaela MacKenzie, Glamour, 5 July 2023
• She was diagnosed with a blood cancer and multiple uterine fibroids that couldn’t be treated due to her weight.
  — Washington Post, 22 July 2019
• Those include people who have uterine issues, like large fibroids, that might affect the IUD’s placement.
  — Korin Miller, SELF, 8 Nov. 2019
• Find out more about uterine fibroids, I.V.F. and when to seek fertility advice.
  — New York Times, 17 Apr. 2020
• According to the CDC, black women are three times more likely to develop cysts and uterine fibroids than any other race.
  — Samantha Callender, PEOPLE.com, 19 June 2017
• Not all people with fibroids have symptoms, and the size and shape of the fibroid can vary greatly, ranging from tiny growths that are undetectable to the human eye to large masses that can distort the uterus’ shape.
  — Mary Retta, Allure, 16 Sep. 2020
• Not all people with fibroids have symptoms, and the size and shape of the fibroid can vary greatly, ranging from tiny growths that are undetectable to the human eye to large masses that can distort the uterus’ shape.
  — Mary Retta, Allure, 16 Sep. 2020
• After some ultrasounds and the discovery of some fibroids, the pain subsided.
  — Robert Philpot, star-telegram, 16 Jan. 2018
• There are plenty of treatment options for uterine fibroids.
  — Macaela MacKenzie, Glamour, 5 July 2023
• Radiofrequency ablation, or use of high frequency sound waves to break up the fibroid from outside your body.
  — Sarah Bradley, Health.com, 14 Oct. 2021
• Types of fibroids Uterine fibroids are classified by their location.
  — Macaela MacKenzie, Glamour, 5 July 2023

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024