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Digestive System Diseases > Liver Diseases > Fatty Liver

Preferred term

Fatty Liver  

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  • Topical Descriptor

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Entry terms

  • Steatohepatitides
  • Steatohepatitis

Scope note

  • Lipid infiltration of the hepatic parenchymal cells resulting in a yellow-colored liver. The abnormal lipid accumulation is usually in the form of TRIGLYCERIDES, either as a single large droplet or multiple small droplets. Fatty liver is caused by an imbalance in the metabolism of FATTY ACIDS.

In other languages

  • rasvamaksa

    Finnish

  • adiposis hepatis
  • degeneratio adiposa hepatis
  • Fettlever

    Swedish

  • Leversteatos
  • Steatos

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D005234

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