lipomatosis

English

Etymology

From lipoma (“fat tumor”) + -osis (“disease”)

Noun

lipomatosis (uncountable)

  1. (pathology) A condition in which multiple lipomas are present on the body.
    • 1957 November 1, John A. Shanks, “Familial Multiple Lipomatosis”, in Canadian Medical Association Journal, volume 77, page 881:
      The accompanying family trees show the occurrence of lipomatosis.
    • 1988 November 1, DJ Quint, “Epidural lipomatosis”, in Radiology:
      The authors report six new cases of epidural lipomatosis--a rarely described entity characterized by increased extradural fat within the spinal canal causing compression of the spinal cord and neurologic deficits.
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