Definition of Adipose tumor

1. Noun. A tumor consisting of fatty tissue.

Exact synonyms: Lipoma
Generic synonyms: Neoplasm, Tumor, Tumour

Lexicographical Neighbors of Adipose Tumor

adiponectin
adiponitrile
adiponitriles
adipophilin
adiposalgia
adipose
adipose capsule
adipose cell
adipose degeneration
adipose fin
adipose fins
adipose folds of the pleura
adipose fossae
adipose infiltration
adipose tissue
adipose tumor (current term)
adipose tumour
adiposeness
adiposes
adiposis
adiposis cerebralis
adiposis dolorosa
adiposis tuberosa simplex
adiposis universalis
adiposities
adiposity

Literary usage of Adipose tumor

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Retrospect of Practical Medicine and Surgery: Being a Half-yearly edited by William Braithwaite, James Braithwaite, Edmond Fauriel Trevelyan (1845)
"UNIQUE CASE OF adipose tumor IN THE SPERMATIC CHORD.— By DO EDWARDS, Esq., Chelsea. [The patient, 43 years of age, in the autumn of 1842, discovered an ..."

2. The Principles and Practice of Surgery by John Ashhurst (1882)
"The fat of an adipose tumor does not differ materially from the ordinary normal fat by which the nm*s is surrounded, though, according to Butlin, ..."

3. The Principles and Practice of Surgery by John Ashhurst (1871)
"The Fatty or adipose tumor, or Lipoma Circumscriptum of systematic writers, ... The fat of an adipose tumor does not differ materially from the ordinary ..."

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