Noun
adiposis
- (medical) A condition marked by the accumulation of adipose (fatty) tissue.
- 2004, Günther Wittlinger, Hildegard Wittlinger, Textbook of Dr. Vodders: Manual Lymph Drainage, Volume 1: Basic Course, 7th Edition, Complementary Medicine Series, page 92 ↗,
- One should always differentiate between adiposis and panniculopathia-oedemato-fibrosclerotica (the so-called cellulite).
- 2009, Ziad F. Issa, John M. Miller, Douglas P. Zipes, Clinical Arrhythmology and Electrophysiology: A Companion to Braunwald's Heart Disease, page 479 ↗,
- The site of the presystolic activation and delayed conduction along the reentrant circuit have been shown to have significant abnormalities such as fibrosis, adiposis, and degeneration of the myocardium. The scattered myocyte islets in the extensive adiposis and/or fibrosis can form an electrical maze around the surgical suture area.
- 2004, Günther Wittlinger, Hildegard Wittlinger, Textbook of Dr. Vodders: Manual Lymph Drainage, Volume 1: Basic Course, 7th Edition, Complementary Medicine Series, page 92 ↗,
- (accumulation of fatty tissue) polysarcia
- French: adipose
- Portuguese: adipose
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