Meaning of liparocele | Babel Free

Definitions

A fatty tumor or cyst.

obsolete, rare

Equivalents

Examples

“The liparocele, which Morgagni calls steatocele, a fatty swelling of the cellular membrane which surrounds the scrotum and testes; and the lipomphalus, a fatty hernia of the umbilicus, are of this kind.”

“On the exterior of the serous membranes their figure⟳ is generally ovoid, one of their extremities being attached to the membrane, the other to the skin; outside the peritoneum this tumour constitutes the fatty hernia or liparocele.”

“For example, on the neck and face⟳ of anencephalous monsters, from great flow⟳ of blood into the carotis facialis, with diminution or closure of the carotis cerebralis—in the belly—in the spermatic cord (the so called liparocele,)—in the cellular tissue under the skin, (compare⟳ below lipomata,)—-near cancerous tumours, &c.”

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