lipoma (lip-o'mah)

A tumor composed of soft or firm lobular ma es of adipose or fatty ti ue bound together with fibrous septa. These tumors may undergo calcification, necrosis, or gangrene, and are frequently multiple, but not metastatic, cystic 1. A 1. containing cysts, diffuse 1. A 1, that is not definitely circumscribed. fibrous 1. See /. durum, hernial 1. A lipocele. 1. arbores cens. Branching papillary excrescences of fatty ti ue within a tendon sheath. 1. arbores cens (articulorum). A lipomatous degeneration of all the normal villous excrescences of the synovial membrane of a joint. 1. capsulare. Of Virchow, a 1. arising from the capsule of the mammary gland, often producing atrophy of the gland by its pre ure. 1. colloides. A myxo lipoma. 1. durum (mixtum). A 1. in which there is marked hypertrophy of the fibrous stroma and capsule. 1. myxoma to des. A lipo myxoma. 1. telangiectodes. A rare form of 1. containing a large number of blood ve els, nasal 1. A fibrous growth of the subcutaneous ti ue of the nose, o eous 1. A 1. in which the connective ti ue has undergone calcareous degeneration. [Gr., lipos, fat, + oma, tumor.]