honeycombing

honeycombing (plural honeycombings)

1. A honeycomb pattern or structure.
   • 1936, H. P. Lovecraft, At the Mountains of Madness:

     the contiguous honeycombings of the land and the titan mountains

2. (medicine, radiology) An appearance of the presence of small cystic spaces with irregularly thickened walls composed of fibrous tissue, observed in widespread pulmonary fibrosis.

   Synonym: honeycomb lung

honeycombing

1. present participle and gerund of honeycomb