English edit

Etymology edit

lipo- +‎ melanotic

Adjective edit

lipomelanotic (not comparable)

  1. (medicine) Pertaining to deposits that include a combination of lipids and melanin.
    • 1954, Oliver Samuel Ormsby, Hamilton Montgomery, Diseases of the skin, page 525:
      The term "lipomelanotic reticulosis" was created by Pautrier and Woringer' in 1937, to describe lipomelanotic deposits in enlarged lymph nodes; the condition was associated with certain generalized dermatoses.
    • 1990, Acta Universitatis Carolinae: Medica. Monographia, page 111:
      Numerous lysosomes were seen in the cytoplasm of alveolar macrophages, usually linked with a lipomelanotic pigment (fig. 87) appearing brown under the light microscope.
    • 2014, Alvin F. Gardner, Differential Oral Diagnosis in Systemic Disease, →ISBN, page 112:
      Dermatopathia lymphadenitis is a chronic lipomelanotic hyperplasia of reticulum cells of the pulp of the lymph-nodes.