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Definition of Lipoma
1. Noun. A tumor consisting of fatty tissue.
Definition of Lipoma
1. n. A tumor consisting of fat or adipose tissue.
Definition of Lipoma
1. Noun. (pathology) A nonmalignant tumor comprising fat cells. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Lipoma
1. A lipoma is a benign tumor composed of fatty tissue. These are the most common form of soft tissue tumor. Lipomas are soft to the touch, usually moveable, and are generally painless. Many lipomas are small (under one centimeter diameter) but can enlarge to sizes greater than six centimeters. Lipomas are commonly found in adults from 40 to 60 years of age, but can also be found in children. Some sources say that malignant transformation can occur, while others claim that this has yet to be convincingly documented.
Medical Definition of Lipoma
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Literary usage of Lipoma
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Microscopical Morphology of the Animal Body in Health and Disease by Carl Heitzmann (1882)
"lipoma. FATTY TUMOR. lipoma is composed of fat-tissue, exhibiting a lobular
structure and traversed by septa of connective tissue, which carries the ..."
2. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1866)
"lipoma is developed much more slowly than diffuse hydrocele. 2. It is not attended
with inflammation. 3. Its form is very variable, while that of diffuse ..."
3. A Manual of Pathological Histology by Victor Cornil (1880)
"The definition of lipoma is based upon the cellule-adipose tissue which constitutes
it. AVe do not recognize as a lipoma the masses of adipose tissue which ..."
4. A Text-book of Diseases of the Nose and Throat by David Braden Kyle (1900)
"lipoma of the pharynx is of rare occurrence, only one case having been reported
... One case has been reported by Bach in which lipoma occurred in the right ..."
5. A Treatise on diseases of the skin for advanced students and practitioners by Henry Weightman Stelwagon (1916)
"lipoma Definition.—A new growth composed of fat tissue, seated in the corium or
subcutaneous tissue. Symptoms.—This formation, which usually comes under the ..."
6. Neoplastic Diseases: A Treatise on Tumors by James Ewing (1922)
"The consistence is usually that of normal fat tissue, lipoma molle, ... lipoma of
forearm in adult, containing fetal fat tissue. secondary changes, or, ..."
7. The Diseases of Children: A Work for the Practising Physician by Meinhard von Pfaundler, Arthur Schlossmann (1912)
"One of her two girls had a lipoma on the back, the other a large lipoma of the
labium majus, ... lipoma in the right labium in a child of ten years. 5. ..."
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