Yellow atrophy

Related to Yellow atrophy: acute yellow atrophy of liver
(Med.) a fatal affection of the liver, in which it undergoes fatty degeneration, and becomes rapidly smaller and of a deep yellow tinge. The marked symptoms are black vomit, delirium, convulsions, coma, and jaundice.

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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.
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Attention to nutrition may eliminate the enigmatic, though rare, acute yellow atrophy in pregnancy as well as the hepatic complications of preeclampsia.
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Hepatic necrosis, or acute yellow atrophy, which is accompanied by a rapid decrease in liver size and overt bleeding, is often fatal.
Yellow in spectrum: a jaundiced etymology
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