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🧬 With fiber and fat 🦠 A tissue lump
fibrofatty

fibrofatty

8.9
A lump of tough body tissue and fat in the body
  • noun
  • Specialized
: masa fibrofatosa
  • The surgeon removed the fibrofatty mass from the patient's abdomen during the operation.

Examples

  • Doctors discovered a fibrofatty deposit in the patient's liver through imaging tests.

  • The report indicated that the fibrofatty tissue showed signs of inflammation.

  • Decompression and debulking of the fibrofatty sheath are associated with more positive results (42).

    Academic text (2015)

Synonyms

atheroma
vsfibrofatty
  • Specialized
1 9.8

A fatty deposit inside a blood vessel that reduces blood flow

is a mixed fibrous and fatty mass found in tissues not only inside arteries

How Fatty

lipomatous
  • Specialized
9.8
fibrofatty
  • Specialized
8.9
fibrous tissue
  • Specialized
2 4.2

Surface Forms

fibrofatty singular
fibrofatties plural

Morphology

fibrofatty = fibrous + fatty (semi-transparent) = fibro + fatty

Denotes a mass composed of fibrous and fatty tissue; composition is clear but 'fibro-' is a specialized combining form.

Etymology

Fibrofatty as a noun names a lump made of both fibro- 'fiber' and fatty 'fat', so the word tells you the mass has both stringy, strong tissue and soft fatty tissue.