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Definition of Adipose tissue
1. Noun. A kind of body tissue containing stored fat that serves as a source of energy; it also cushions and insulates vital organs. "Fatty tissue protected them from the severe cold"
Generic synonyms: Animal Tissue
Specialized synonyms: Flab, Atheroma, Cellulite, Puppy Fat, Mons, Mons Pubis, Mons Veneris, Belly, Paunch, Love Handle, Spare Tire
Derivative terms: Fat, Fat, Fatty
Definition of Adipose tissue
1. Noun. (anatomy) Connective tissue which stores fat, and which cushions and insulates the body. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Medical Definition of Adipose tissue
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Adipose Tissue
Literary usage of Adipose tissue
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Text Book of Physiology by Michael Foster (1899)
"adipose tissue. § 502. Globules of fat of various sizes make their appearance in
the very elements of most of the tissues, in muscular fibres, in epithelial ..."
2. A Text Book of Physiology by Michael Foster (1893)
"adipose tissue. S 503. Globules of fat of various sizes make their ... Connective
tissue thus loaded with fat is called adipose tissue ; and masses of ..."
3. Anatomy, Descriptive and Surgical by Henry Gray (1883)
"The common subcutaneous cellular or cellulo-adipose tissue has been taken above
as the typical form from which to describe connective tissue. ..."
4. An Introduction to Entomology by John Henry Comstock (1920)
"THE adipose tissue On opening the body of an insect, especially of a larva, ...
The chief function of the adipose tissue is the storage of nutriment ..."
5. How to Work with the Microscope by Lionel Smith ( Beale (1880)
"adipose tissue.—adipose tissue may be examined by cutting off a thin section of
the fat of any young animal, and placing it with a little water between two ..."
6. The Newer Knowledge of Nutrition: The Use of Food for the Preservation of by Elmer Verner McCollum (1922)
"Cramer (29) reported an interesting study of the relation of fasting for fat-soluble
A to changes in the histological structure in certain adipose tissue, ..."
7. The Journal of Experimental Medicine by Rockefeller University, Rockefeller Institute, Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research (1898)
"... TISSUE UPON SUBCUTANEOUS adipose tissue. BY HERBERT U. WILLIAMS, MD (From the
Pathological Laboratory of the University of Buffalo.) PLATE LIII. ..."
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