liparocele

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noun

A fatty tumor or cyst.

Scrabble 14

Meanings

nounliparocele (plural liparoceles)

plural liparoceles

  1. obsoleteraremedicineA fatty tumor or cyst.

    The liparocele, which Morgagni calls steatocele, a fatty swelling of the cellular membrane which surrounds the scrotum and testes; and the lipomphalus, a fatty hernia of the umbilicus, are of this kind.

    1809, Bartholomew Parr, The London Medical Dictionary
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    On the exterior of the serous membranes their figure is generally ovoid, one of their extremities being attached to the membrane, the other to the skin; outside the peritoneum this tumour constitutes the fatty hernia or liparocele.

    1830, Pierre Auguste Béclard, Elements of General Anatomy

    For example, on the neck and face of anencephalous monsters, from great flow of blood into the carotis facialis, with diminution or closure of the carotis cerebralis—in the belly—in the spermatic cord (the so called liparocele,)—in the cellular tissue under the skin, (compare below lipomata,)—-near cancerous tumours, &c.

    1831, Adolph Wilhelm Otto, A Compendium of Human and Comparative Pathological Anatomy
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