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n. - A disorder of fat metabolism.

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  • To a veterinarian, the ensuing human-induced disorder is called "hepatic lipidosis."
  • Cornell University looked at 157 cats with lipidosis to see what conditions were primary:
  • Birds are shown laboring to breathe; that's because foie gras is really a force-feeding-induced illness -- hepatic lipidosis.
  • I tried to get my fat cat to lose weight a few years ago, and she got hepatic lipidosis and had to be fed through a tube in her neck for two months
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