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yellow atrophy

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.96 in modern English

Syllables
yel-low a-t-ro-phy
IPA
27
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
5
Syllables
10
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A fatal condition of the liver in which it undergoes fatty degeneration and becomes rapidly smaller and of a deep yellow tinge. The marked symptoms are black vomit, delirium, convulsions, coma, and jaundice.

Uncountable

Usage

Inflected Forms

yellow atrophies (plural)

Questions

What does yellow atrophy mean?
A fatal condition of the liver in which it undergoes fatty degeneration and becomes rapidly smaller and of a deep yellow tinge. The marked symptoms are black vomit, delirium, convulsions, coma, and jaundice.

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