- macrovesicular steatosis
- fatty change in which a single large droplet occupies most of the cell, displacing the cytoplasm and nucleus to a ring around the droplet. Called also macrosteatosis. Cf. microvesicular s.
Medical dictionary. 2011.
macrovesicular steatosis
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