fatty tumor

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fatty tumor - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Tumor \Tu"mor\ (t[=u]"m[~e]r), n. [L., fr. tumere to swell: cf.
     F. tume['u]r. See Tumid.]
     1. (Med.) A morbid swelling, prominence, or growth, on any
        part of the body; especially, a growth produced by
        deposition of new tissue; a neoplasm.
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     2. Affected pomp; bombast; swelling words or expressions;
        false magnificence or sublimity. [R.]
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              Better, however, to be a flippant, than, by a
              revolting form of tumor and perplexity, to lead men
              into habits of intellect such as result from the
              modern vice of English style.         --De Quincey.
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     Encysted tumor, a tumor which is inclosed in a membrane
        called a cyst, connected with the surrounding parts by the
        neighboring cellular substance.
  
     Fatty tumor. See under Fatty.
  
     Innocent tumor, or Benign tumor, one which does not of
        itself threaten life, and does not usually tend to recur
        after extirpation; a tumor which has not metastesized.
  
     Malignant tumor, a tumor which tends continually to spread,
        to become generalized in different parts of the body, and
        to recur after extirpation, and which, if left to itself,
        causes death.
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  Fatty \Fat"ty\, a.
     Containing fat, or having the qualities of fat; greasy;
     gross; as, a fatty substance.
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     Fatty acid (Chem.), any one of the paraffin series of
        monocarbonic acids, as formic acid, acetic, etc.; -- so
        called because the higher members, as stearic and palmitic
        acids, occur in the natural fats, and are themselves
        fatlike substances.
  
     Fatty clays. See under Clay.
  
     Fatty degeneration (Med.), a diseased condition, in which
        the oil globules, naturally present in certain organs, are
        so multiplied as gradually to destroy and replace the
        efficient parts of these organs.
  
     Fatty heart, Fatty liver, etc. (Med.), a heart, liver,
        etc., which have been the subjects of fatty degeneration
        or infiltration.
  
     Fatty infiltration (Med.), a condition in which there is an
        excessive accumulation of fat in an organ, without
        destruction of any essential parts of the latter.
  
     Fatty tumor (Med.), a tumor consisting of fatty or adipose
        tissue; lipoma.
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