fat cells

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• Fat transfer — Fat injection reportedly started in 1893 when German physician Franz Neuber used a small piece of upper arm fat to build up the face of a patient whose cheek had large pit caused by a tubercular inflammation of the bone. [Neuber, F.… …   Wikipedia

• Fat — Fat, n. 1. (Physiol. Chem.) An oily liquid or greasy substance making up the main bulk of the adipose tissue of animals, and widely distributed in the seeds of plants. See {Adipose tissue}, under {Adipose}. [1913 Webster] Note: Animal fats are… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• Fat acid — Fat Fat, n. 1. (Physiol. Chem.) An oily liquid or greasy substance making up the main bulk of the adipose tissue of animals, and widely distributed in the seeds of plants. See {Adipose tissue}, under {Adipose}. [1913 Webster] Note: Animal fats… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• Fat series — Fat Fat, n. 1. (Physiol. Chem.) An oily liquid or greasy substance making up the main bulk of the adipose tissue of animals, and widely distributed in the seeds of plants. See {Adipose tissue}, under {Adipose}. [1913 Webster] Note: Animal fats… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• brown fat cells — Brown fat is specialized for heat production and the adipocytes have many mitochondria in which an inner membrane protein can act as an uncoupler of oxidative phosphorylation allowing rapid thermogenesis …   Dictionary of molecular biology

• fat cell — noun cells composed of fat • Syn: ↑adipose cell • Hypernyms: ↑somatic cell, ↑vegetative cell • Substance Meronyms: ↑fat * * * noun : one of the constituent fat laden cells characteristic …   Useful english dictionary

• FAT (gene) — FAT tumor suppressor homolog 1 (Drosophila), also known as FAT, is a human gene.cite web | title = Entrez Gene: FAT FAT tumor suppressor homolog 1 (Drosophila)| url = http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?Db=gene Cmd=ShowDetailView… …   Wikipedia

• fat — fatless, adj. fatlike, adj. /fat/, adj., fatter, fattest, n., v., fatted, fatting. adj. 1. having too much flabby tissue; corpulent; obese: a fat person. 2. plump; well fed: a good, fat chicken. 3. consisting of or containing fat; greasy; oily:… …   Universalium

• Fat — The word fat has more meanings that it has letters. It is among other things: {{}}A nutrient: With proteins and carbohydrates, fat, also known as lipid, is one of the three types of nutrients used as energy sources by the body. The energy… …   Medical dictionary

• fat and oil processing — ▪ chemistry Introduction       method by which animal and plant substances are prepared for eating by humans.       The oil and fat products used for edible purposes can be divided into two distinct classes: liquid oils, such as olive oil, peanut …   Universalium

• fat — I. adjective (fatter; fattest) Etymology: Middle English, from Old English fǣtt, past participle of fǣtan to cram; akin to Old High German feizit fat Date: before 12th century 1. notable for having an unusual amount of fat: a. plump b. obese c …   New Collegiate Dictionary