Lipoma (redirected from Fatty lipoma)

lipoma /lip·o·ma/ (lip-o´mah) a benign, soft, rubbery, encapsulated tumor of adipose tissue, usually composed of mature fat cells.

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li·po·ma (l-pm, l-)

n. pl. li·po·mas or li·po·ma·ta (-m-t)

A benign tumor composed chiefly of fat cells.

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Lipoma

A usually benign tumor of fatty tissue.

Mentioned in: Skin Lesions

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lipoma (lipō´m),

n a benign tumor characterized by fat cells.

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lipoma

a benign fatty tumor usually composed of mature fat cells. They have a special importance in horses, in which the pedunculated tumors in the abdominal cavity uncommonly twist themselves around a loop of small intestine, sometimes just below the pylorus or around the rectum. The occurrence of this particular form of colic is limited to horses 12 years or older. The clinical signs are not diagnostic except that the strangulation of the rectum causes a purse-string closure of the lumen just inside the anus and is easily detected at rectal examination.

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infiltrating lipoma

see liposarcoma.

skin lipoma

localized nodules of normal looking fat in sucutaneous tissue in most species.