honeycombing

noun — 2 senses

honeycombing

noun
1

A honeycomb pattern or structure.

  • the contiguous honeycombings of the land and the titan mountains1936, H. P. Lovecraft, At the Mountains of Madness:
2

Medicine, Radiology, Sciences An appearance of the presence of small cystic spaces with irregularly thickened walls composed of fibrous tissue, observed in widespread pulmonary fibrosis.

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