資料來源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Infiltration \In`fil*tra"tion\, n. [Cf. F. infiltration.]
1. The act or process of infiltrating, as if water into a
porous substance, or of a fluid into the cells of an organ
or part of the body.
2. The substance which has entered the pores or cavities of a
body. --Addison.
Calcareous infiltrations filling the cavities.
--Kirwan.
{Fatty infiltration}. (Med.) See under {Fatty}.
{Infiltration gallery}, a filter gallery.
Fatty \Fat"ty\, a.
Containing fat, or having the qualities of fat; greasy;
gross; as, a fatty substance.
{Fatty acid} (Chem.), any one of the paraffin series of
monocarbonic acids, as formic acid, acetic, etc.; -- so
called because the higher members, as stearic and palmitic
acids, occur in the natural fats, and are themselves
fatlike substances.
{Fatty clays}. See under {Clay}.
{Fatty degeneration} (Med.), a diseased condition, in which
the oil globules, naturally present in certain organs, are
so multiplied as gradually to destroy and replace the
efficient parts of these organs.
{Fatty heart}, {Fatty liver}, etc. (Med.), a heart, liver,
etc., which have been the subjects of fatty degeneration
or infiltration.
{Fatty infiltration} (Med.), a condition in which there is an
excessive accumulation of fat in an organ, without
destruction of any essential parts of the latter.
{Fatty tumor} (Med.), a tumor consisting of fatty or adipose
tissue; lipoma.