a. Path. [f. Gr. στεατωματ-, στέατωμα (see prec.) + -OUS.] Of the nature of or resembling a steatoma.
1681. E. Tyson, in Phil. Coll., No. 2. 14. In a thin pale Lympha or Serum, there did swim in several … pieces a steatomatous or cruddy Matter.
1772. Phil. Trans., LXI. 131. [A] Steatomatous Tumour.
1849–52. Todd’s Cycl. Anat., IV. 1355/2. The limbs [of the Hottentot] are slight; the buttocks, however, frequently present a steatomatous appearance.
