FATTY DEGENERATION

Definition: FATTY DEGENERATION

FATTY DEGENERATION

1. (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.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Domain	Definitions
Medicine	Abnormal formation of microscopically visible droplets of fat in the cytoplasm of cells, especially liver cells; may be caused as a result of intoxication by organic solvents or pesticides. Source: European Union. (references)
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Crosswords: FATTY DEGENERATION

English words defined with "FATTY DEGENERATION": Adipocere ♦ Yellow atrophy. (references)

Specialty definitions using "FATTY DEGENERATION": Cerebrotendinous Xanthomatosis ♦ Reye Syndrome ♦ steatosis. (references)

Author	Quotation
Robert Louis Stevenson	In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.
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Expression using "FATTY DEGENERATION": fatty degeneration of liver. Additional references.
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Language		Translations for "FATTY DEGENERATION"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Danish		fedtdegeneration (adipose degeneration, dystrophia adiposa corneae, steatosis, steatosis corneae, xanthomatosis corneae), steatosis (steatosis), steatose (adipose degeneration, steatosis). (various references)

Dutch		vettige degeneratie (adipose degeneration, steatosis). (various references)

Finnish		rasvasydän (fatty degeneration of the heart). (various references)

French		dégénérescence graisseuse. (various references)

German		fettige Entartung (adipose degeneration, steatosis), fettige Degeneration (adipose degeneration, steatosis), tropfige Verfettung (adipose degeneration, steatosis), Degeneratio adiposa (adipose degeneration, steatosis). (various references)

Greek		λιπώδης εκφύλιση (adipose degeneration, steatosis). (various references)

Italian		steatosi (adipose degeneration, steatosis), degenerazione grassa (adipose degeneration, steatosis), degenerazione adiposa (adipose degeneration, steatosis). (various references)

Pig Latin		attyfay egenerationday

Portuguese		degenerescência gorda (adipose degeneration, steatosis), degeneração gorda (adipose degeneration, steatosis). (various references)

Spanish		degeneración grasa (adipose degeneration, steatosis). (various references)

Turkish		yağ dejenerasyonu, aşırı şişmanlık (obesity). (various references)
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-d-e-e-e-f-g-i-n-n-o-r-t-t-t-y"
	-5 letters: degeneration, renegotiated.
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