adipose tumor

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   a tumor consisting of fatty tissue

   Synonymslipoma

   Broadertumor

Questions about adipose tumor

What does adipose tumor mean?

adipose tumor means "a tumor consisting of fatty tissue".

What is another word for adipose tumor?

Close synonyms include lipoma. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is adipose tumor a common word?

adipose tumor is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.