Path. [f. Gr. λιπαρό-ς oily + κήλη tumor.] A fatty tumor of the scrotum (see quots.)
1830. R. Knox, trans. Béclard’s Anat., 90. At the exterior of the peritonæum, this tumour constitutes the adipose hernia or liparocele.
1844. Hoblyn, Dict. Med., Liparocele, a species of sarcocele, in which the enclosed substance is fat.
1890. Billings, Nat. Med. Dict., Liparocele, a circumscribed fatty tumour growing from subperitoneal connective tissue, and making its way through the abdominal walls, similating an abdominal hernia.
Hence Liparocelic a. (Mayne, Expos. Lex., 1855).
