Path. Also anglicized steatom(e. [L. steatōma, a. Gr. στέατωμα, f. στεατοῦσθαι to be converted into fat, f. στεατ-, στέαρ fat, tallow. Cf. F. stéatôme.] An encysted fatty tumor.
α. 1599. A. M., trans. Gabelhouer’s Bk. Physicke, 18/4. The vlceration Steatoma, a kinde of fatte matter, like suet.
1674. trans. Barbette’s Chirurg. (ed. 2), 323. Steatoma’s and other Abscesses, are often generated in the Caul.
1763. Phil. Trans., LIII. 233. The glands of the mesentery … represented small and distinct steatomas.
1854. C. H. Jones, Path. Anat., iv. 166. A steatoma … is a fatty tumour, with a preponderating excess of areolar tissue.
β. 1737. Jamieson, in Med. Ess. Edinb. (ed. 2), III. 354. A large Steatom passing with the Oesophagus from the Thorax into the Abdomen.
1829. Good’s Study Med. (ed. 3), V. 324. The steatome grows to a larger size, than any of the rest.
1835–6. Todd’s Cycl. Anat., I. 63/2. Small steatoms are not unfrequent in the eyelids and in the scalp.
