English Explanatory Dictionary

yellow atrophy

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A fatal condition of the liver in which it undergoes fatty degeneration and becomes rapidly smaller and of a deep yellow tinge. The marked symptoms are black vomit, delirium, convulsions, coma, and jaundice.

Word forms

yellow atrophy yellow atrophies
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