hepatization

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English[edit]

hepatization (in sheep pneumonia)

Noun[edit]

hepatization (countable and uncountable, plural hepatizations)

  1. (medicine) The conversion into a substance resembling the liver; a state of the lungs when gorged with effused matter, so that they are no longer pervious to the air.

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