a. Path. [f. Gr. ἀθηρωματ- (see prec.) + -OUS.] Of, pertaining to, or of the nature of, atheroma.
1676. Wiseman, Surgery, iv. 271 (J.). Feeling it big within, and the Matter fluctuating, I thought it Atheromatous. Ibid., vi. 322. Ægilops is a Tubercle in the inner Canthus of the Eye, either Scrophulous, Atheromatous, or of the nature of a Meliceris.
1724. Houstoun, in Phil. Trans., XXXIII. 10. As I have met with in Steatomatous and Atheromatous Tumours.
1877. Roberts, Handbk. Med., I. 37. Atheromatous or calcareous degeneration of the arteries.
