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Fatty Lump (Lipoma)
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Also known as: fatty lump · fat nodule · benign fatty tumour · Lipoma · fat knot · fat pouch · soft lump under the skin · soft nodule · adipose tissue tumour
Your Body Is Speaking
Somewhere beneath your skin, something has formed. Soft, movable, painless — a nodule of fatty tissue growing where it doesn't belong. Medically, a lipoma is harmless. It is benign, it threatens no organ, it rarely requires intervention. And yet it is there. Your body has stored tissue that serves no function. It has held on to something that goes nowhere — and that is precisely what makes it so revealing.
The question BodySignal asks is not: what do we do with the nodule? But rather: what does the nodule do with you? What has your body stored, encapsulated, tucked away beneath the surface — that you have not processed? A lipoma is not an emergency, but a silent archive. A repository of things you could not let go and did not want to live through.
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