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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A benign tumor composed chiefly of fat cells.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In pathology, a tumor formed of fatty tissue. Also called adipoma and liparocele.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Med.) A tumor consisting of fat or adipose tissue.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun pathology A nonmalignant tumor comprising fat cells.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a tumor consisting of fatty tissue

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