adiponecrosis

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(ăd'ə-pō-nə-krō'sĭs, -nĕ-)
n.

Necrosis of fat, as occurs in hemorrhagic pancreatitis.

Necrosis of fatty tissue.

  • a. neonatorum — induration of subcutaneous fat, thought to be caused by obstetric trauma, in the newborn. Called also adiposis subcutanea.

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