Path. [f. Gr. ξανθός yellow + -ωμα (cf. sarcoma).] An affection of the skin, characterized by the growth of yellowish patches or tubercles. Also attrib. Hence Xanthomatous a., pertaining to or of the nature of xanthoma.
1876. Duhring, Dis. Skin, 410. Xanthoma is a connective-tissue new growth, characterized by the formation of yellowish, circumscribed, irregularly shaped,… non-indurated patches or tubercles.
1899. Allbutt’s Syst. Med., VIII. 484. The chamois-leather-like patches may simulate xanthoma. Ibid., 896. The so-called ‘xanthoma cell’ is … a fragmented muscle fibre in a state of granulo-fatty degeneration.
1914. Lancet, 13 June, 1697/1. Xanthomatous nodules in the liver.
