cho·les·ter·o·sis kə-.les-tə-'rō-səs n, pl -o·ses -.sēz abnormal deposition of cholesterol (as in blood vessels or the gallbladder)
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n.
a form of chronic cholecystitis in which small crystals of cholesterol are deposited on the internal wall of the gall bladder, like the pips of a strawberry: hence its descriptive term strawberry gall bladder. The crystals may enlarge to become gallstone.
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cho·les·ter·o·sis (kə-les″tər-oґsis) cholesterolosis.Medical dictionary. 2011.