macrosteatosis

English

Etymology

macro- +‎ steatosis

Noun

macrosteatosis (uncountable)

1. (pathology) macrovesicular steatosis
   • 2015 July 16, “Future Economics of Liver Transplantation: A 20-Year Cost Modeling Forecast and the Prospect of Bioengineering Autologous Liver Grafts”, in PLOS ONE‎^[1], →DOI:

     These include: the use of marginal donors, an ill-defined group comprised of donors over the age of 60; donors with greater than 30% hypernatremia or macrosteatosis; donors with positive serologies for the hepatitis C or hepatitis B virus; donors with a cold ischemia time of greater than 12 hours; non-heart-beating donors; and grafts from split-livers or living-related donors.

Related terms

• macrosteatotic
• microsteatosis