Medical Definition of Hibernoma
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A rare type of benign neoplasm in human beings, consisting of brown fat that resembles the fat in certain hibernating animals; individual tumour cells contain multiple lipid droplets.
See: brown fat.
Origin: L. Hibernus, pertaining to winter, + G. -oma, tumour
(05 Mar 2000)
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