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The deposit over time of plaque (lipids and fibrous tissue) in the tunica intrima (inner wall) of arteries is atherosclerosis.

An atheroma is an encysted tumor (fatty deposit) in the internal arterial wall or is the fatty degeneration of that wall.

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