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lipodermatosclerosis

lipodermatosclerosis noun: a disease of the skin and connective tissue: chronic panniculitis with lipomembranous changes.

Noun

lipodermatosclerosis (uncountable)

  1. A disease of the skin and connective tissue: chronic panniculitis with lipomembranous changes.
    • It requires treatment in patients with various complications such as thrombophlebitis, bleeding from superficial varicose veins, or signs of more advanced forms of chronic venous insufficiency (CVI) such as edema and skin changes including lipodermatosclerosis, eczema, pigmentation, atrophie...2014 December 31, Jin Hyun Joh et al., “Consensus for the Treatment of Varicose Vein with Radiofrequency Ablation”, in Vascular Specialist International, volume 30, →DOI

Origin of lipodermatosclerosis

From lipo- + dermato- + sclerosis.

Words formed from lipodermatosclerosis

Questions about lipodermatosclerosis

What does lipodermatosclerosis mean?
Lipodermatosclerosis means a disease of the skin and connective tissue: chronic panniculitis with lipomembranous changes.
What part of speech is lipodermatosclerosis?
Lipodermatosclerosis is a noun.

Words near lipodermatosclerosis in the dictionary

  1. lipodecapeptides
  2. lipodepsinonapeptide
  3. lipodepsinonapeptides
  4. lipodepsipeptide
  5. lipodepsipeptides
  6. lipodermatosclerosis
  7. lipodermatosclerotic
  8. lipodermos
  9. lipodipeptide
  10. lipodipeptides
  11. lipodistrophic

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