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hypostatic ectasia (medicine)


hypostatic ectasia
Dilation of a blood vessel, usually a vein, in a dependent portion of the body, as in varicose veins of the leg.

Mammary duct ectasia, dilation of mammary ducts by lipid and cellular debris in older women; rupture of ducts may result in granulomatous inflammation and infiltration by plasma cells.

See: plasma cell mastitis.

Papillary ectasia, obsolete term for senile haemangioma.