hepatization

hepatization
Conversion of a loose tissue into a firm mass like the substance of the liver macroscopically, denoting especially such a change in the lungs in the consolidation of pneumonia.
- gray h. the second stage of h. in pneumonia, when the exudate is beginning to degenerate prior to breaking down; the color is a yellowish gray or mottled.
- red h. the first stage of h. in which the exudate is blood-stained.
- yellow h. the final stage of h. in which the exudate is becoming purulent.

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hep·a·ti·za·tion .hep-ət-ə-'zā-shən n conversion of tissue (as of the lungs in pneumonia) into a substance which resembles liver tissue and may become solidified
hep·a·tized 'hep-ə-.tīzd adj

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n.
the conversion of lung tissue, which normally holds air, into a solid liver-like mass during the course of acute lobar pneumonia.

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hep·a·ti·za·tion (hep″ə-tĭ-zaґshən) consolidation of tissue into a liverlike mass, especially as seen in the lung in pneumococcal pneumonia.

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