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noun Pathology.
deterioration of the cells of the body, accompanied by the formation of fat globules within the diseased cells.
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Origin of fatty degeneration

First recorded in 1875–80

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fatty degeneration

noun
pathol the abnormal formation of tiny globules of fat within the cytoplasm of a cell
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