See Also: lipomatosis, multiple symmetrical(medicine)
multiple symmetric lipomatosis(medicine)
lipomatosis(medicine)
encephalocraniocutaneous lipomatosis(medicine)
macrodystrophic lipomatosis(medicine)
lipomatosis neurotica(medicine)
mediastinal lipomatosis(medicine)
symmetrical(dictionary)
Symmetrical(medicine)
symmetrical(dictionary)

Guo Moruo (sh) and lipomatosis, multiple symmetrical (medicine)


Guo Moruo (sh)




or Kuo Mo-jo orig. Guo Kaizhen

born November 1892, Shawan, Luoshan county, Sichuan province, China
died June 12, 1978, Beijing

Chinese scholar and writer.

In his youth he abandoned medical studies to devote himself to foreign literature, producing a popular translation of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Sorrows of Young Werther (1922). He wrote prolifically in every genre, including poetry, Fiction, plays, nine autobiographical volumes, translations of Western works, and historical and philosophical treatises, including a monumental study of ancient inscriptions. Initially a liberal democrat, he became a Marxist in the 1920s, and his work was banned by the Guomindang. Following the 1949 revolution, he was named to the highest official literary positions and later to the presidency of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.


lipomatosis, multiple symmetrical (medicine)


lipomatosis, multiple symmetrical
Multiple circumscribed or encapsulated lipomas which may be distributed symmetrically or haphazardly or which may form a collar around the neck.