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Marbling

Food industry The increase of intramuscular fat in cattle, which increases beef’s tenderness
Forensic pathology ‘Venous patterning’ A vaguely arborescent mosaic of discolouration due to prominent subdermal vessels on the skin of a body in early (3 to 5 days) decomposition/decay
Sports medicine Skin bends, skin marbling Mottling of skin seen in divers with pulmonary barotrauma and air embolism

marbling

1. the presence of different stages of congestion and necrosis in adjoining lobules of an organ, giving a gross effect of a pattern similar to that of marble.

2. the desirable intermixing of fat and muscle fibers in good beef produced by feeding a high energy diet when the animal is still young.

marbling

Forensic pathology 'Venous patterning' A mosaic of discoloration due to prominent subdermal vessels on the skin of a body in early decomposition/decay Sports medicine Skin marbling Mottling of skin seen in divers with pulmonary barotrauma and air embolism. See Air embolism, Pulmonary barotrauma.

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