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lipodystrophies

lipodystrophies is the plural of lipodystrophy.

Meaning of lipodystrophy

Noun

lipodystrophy (countable and uncountable, plural lipodystrophies)

  1. A disorder characterized by abnormal or degenerative conditions of the body's adipose tissue.
    • Among genetic lipodystrophies, the fat loss is observed either since birth as in congenital generalized lipodystrophy, or it occurs later in life as in familial partial lipodystrophy.2007, Vinaya Simha, Anil K. Agarwal, 18: Inherited and Acquired Lipodystrophies: Disorders of Adipose Tissue Development, Differentiation, and Death, Giamila Fantuzzi, Theodore Mazzone (editors)...

Questions about lipodystrophies

What is lipodystrophies the plural of?
Lipodystrophies is the plural of lipodystrophy.

Words near lipodystrophies in the dictionary

  1. lipodistrophy
  2. lipodomic
  3. lipoduction
  4. lipodystrophia
  5. lipodystrophic
  6. lipodystrophies
  7. lipodystrophy
  8. lipoed
  9. lipoedema
  10. lipofectamin
  11. lipofectamine

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