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fatty degeneration |
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fatty degeneration n
(Medicine / Pathology) Pathol the abnormal formation of tiny globules of fat within the cytoplasm of a cell Translations fatty degeneration n (Med) → Verfettung f How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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I believe that you are suffering from what is called fatty degeneration of the heart, a disease which was first divined and explored by Laennec, the man who gave us the stethoscope, not so very many years ago. And I'll say, 'Why, the funeral of that good-for-nothing, gambling, whiskey-drinking Burning Daylight--the man that died of fatty degeneration of the heart from sitting in night and day at the business game 'Yes ma'am,' I'll say, 'he's sure a gone 'coon, but I've come to take his place and make you happy. There is no positive disease; there is only a chronic feebleness -- a fatty degeneration -- a want of vital power in the organ itself. |
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