| lipomatous infiltration | Nonencapsulated adipose tissue forming a lipoma-like mass, usually in the cardiac interatrial septum where it may cause arrhythmia and sudden death. Synonym: lipomatous hypertrophy. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| lipomatous | Pertaining to or manifesting the features of lipoma, or characterised by the presence of a lipoma (or lipomas). (05 Mar 2000) |
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| lipomatous hypertrophy | Nonencapsulated adipose tissue forming a lipoma-like mass, usually in the cardiac interatrial septum where it may cause arrhythmia and sudden death. Synonym: lipomatous hypertrophy. (05 Mar 2000) |
| lipomatous polyp | A polyp consisting chiefly of adipose tissue, lipoma that bulges from the surface or is attached by means of a stalk. (05 Mar 2000) |
| adipose infiltration | Growth of normal adult fat cells in sites where they are not usually present. (05 Mar 2000) |
| calcareous infiltration | <biochemistry> The process by which organic tissue becomes hardened by a deposit of calcium salts within its substance. Origin: L. Facere = to make. (21 Mar 1998) |
| gelatinous infiltration | A term sometimes used for the relatively rapidly formed, semisolid, gray or gray-white exudate (chiefly necrotic cells and remnants of tissue, and macrophages) resulting from unusually acute, overwhelming, diffuse tuberculous infection in the lung. Synonym: gelatinous infiltration. (05 Mar 2000) |
| paraneural infiltration | Infiltration adjacent to or along a nerve. (05 Mar 2000) |
| cellular infiltration | Migration of cells from their sources of origin, or direct extension of cells as a result of unusual growth and multiplication, thereby resulting in fairly well-defined foci, irregular accumulations, or diffusely distributed individual cells in the connective tissue and interstices of various organs and tissues; used especially with reference to such changes associated with inflammations and certain types of malignant neoplasms. (05 Mar 2000) |
| perineural infiltration | Infiltration about a nerve. (05 Mar 2000) |
| gray infiltration | A term sometimes used for the relatively rapidly formed, semisolid, gray or gray-white exudate (chiefly necrotic cells and remnants of tissue, and macrophages) resulting from unusually acute, overwhelming, diffuse tuberculous infection in the lung. Synonym: gelatinous infiltration. (05 Mar 2000) |
| small bowel infiltration | <radiology> Whipple disease (proximal small bowel), small bowel lymphoma, amyloidosis, Waldenstrom macrogloblinaemia, sprue, eosinophilic gastroenteritis, abetalipoproteinaemia (increased fat droplets in mucosal cells) (12 Dec 1998) |
| infiltration | <pathology> The diffusion or accumulation in a tissue or cells of substances not normal to it or in amounts of the normal. Also, the material so accumulated. (13 Nov 1997) |
| infiltration anaesthesia | Anaesthesia produced by injection of local anaesthetic solution directly into an area that is painful or about to be operated upon. (05 Mar 2000) |
| epituberculous infiltration | An infiltration superimposed upon a tuberculous lesion. (05 Mar 2000) |
| fatty infiltration | Abnormal accumulation of fat droplets in the cytoplasm of cells, particularly of fat derived from outside the cells. See: fatty degeneration. (05 Mar 2000) |