a potentially fatal disorder characterized by painful localized fatty swellings and nerve lesions. The disease mainly affects menopausal women. Also called adiposis dolorosa.

adiposis [ad″ĭ-po´sis]

obesity.

abnormal deposits or degeneration of fatty tissue.

adiposis cerebra´lis fatness from cerebral pituitary disease.

adiposis doloro´sa a painful condition due to pressure on nerves caused by fatty deposits.

adiposis hepa´tica fatty degeneration of liver.

adiposis tubero´sa simplex adiposis dolorosa in which the fatty degeneration occurs in nodular masses.

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