| degen | degeneration, degenerative |
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| DeR | degeneration reaction |
| DR | degeneration reaction; delivery room; deoxyribose; diabetic retinopathy; diagnostic radiology; digit... |
| Ea | R reaction of degeneration [Ger. Entartungs-Reaktion] |
| HLD | hepatolenticular degeneration; herniated lumbar disk; Hippel-Lindau disease; hypersensitivity lung d... |
| fatty heart | Fatty degeneration of the myocardium, accumulation of adipose tissue on the external surface of the heart with occasional infiltration of fat between the muscle bundles of the heart wall. Synonym: cor adiposum. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| fatty hernia | The escape of subcutaneous fat through a gap in a fascia or an aponeurosis. Synonym: fatty hernia. (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) |
| fatty kidney | A kidney in which there is fatty metamorphosis of the parenchymal cells, especially fatty degeneration. (05 Mar 2000) |
| fatty layer of superficial fascia | The more superficial, fatty part of the superficial fascia of the lower anterior abdominal wall. Synonym: fatty layer of superficial fascia. (05 Mar 2000) |
| fatty liver | <radiology> Hyperalimentation, diabetes, Cushing disease, steroids, obesity, previous jejunal bypass, Reye syndrome, kwashiorkor, malnutrition (EtOH, chemo, RT), Crohn disease (12 Dec 1998) |
| fatty liver, alcoholic | Fatty liver in alcoholics. It is potentially reversible and may be associated with alcoholic hepatitis or cirrhosis. (12 Dec 1998) |
| fatty liver syndrome | <syndrome> A noninfectious disease of chickens characterised by enlarged fat-infiltrated livers. (05 Mar 2000) |
| fatty metamorphosis | The appearance of microscopically visible droplets of fat in the cytoplasm of cells. See: fatty degeneration. Synonym: fatty change. (05 Mar 2000) |
| fatty oil | An oil derived from both animals and plants; chemically, a glyceride of a fatty acid which, by substitution of the glycerine by an alkaline base, is converted into a soap; a fatty oil, in contrast to a volatile oil, is permanent, leaving a stain on an absorbent surface, and thus is not capable of distillation; it is obtained by expression or extraction; the consistency varies with the temperature, some being liquid (o.'s proper), others semisolid (fats), and others solid (tallows) at ordinary temperatures; both liquid and semisolid oil's are congealed by cold and the solids are liquified by heat. Synonym: fixed oil. (05 Mar 2000) |
| fatty renal capsule | The perirenal fat. Synonym: capsula adiposa renis, adipose capsule. (05 Mar 2000) |
| fatty series | The alkanes; all the acyclic compounds in the methane, ethane, propane, etc., group, distinguished from the aromatic series. (05 Mar 2000) |
| fatty stool | A stool containing excessive amounts of fat. (05 Mar 2000) |
| fatty streak | <pathology> Superficial fatty patch in the artery wall caused by the accumulation of cholesterol and cholesterol oleate in distended foam cells. (18 Nov 1997) |
| fatty tissue | <anatomy> Connective tissue that has been specialised to store fat. See: adipocyte. (25 Jun 1999) |