The Collaborative International Dictionary
Adipose \Ad"i*pose`\ (?; 277), a. [L. adeps, adipis, fat, grease.] Of or pertaining to animal fat; fatty.
Adipose fin (Zo["o]l.), a soft boneless fin.
Adipose tissue (Anat.), that form of animal tissue which forms or contains fat.
Wiktionary
n. (context anatomy English) connective tissue which stores fat, and which cushions and insulates the body.
WordNet
n. a kind of body tissue containing stored fat that serves as a source of energy; adipose tissue also cushions and insulates vital organs; "fatty tissue protected them from the severe cold" [syn: fat, fatty tissue]
Wikipedia
In biology, adipose tissue , body fat, or simply fat is a loose connective tissue composed mostly of adipocytes. In addition to adipocytes, adipose tissue contains the stromal vascular fraction (SVF) of cells including preadipocytes, fibroblasts, vascular endothelial cells and a variety of immune cells (i.e., adipose tissue macrophages [ATMs]). Adipose tissue is derived from preadipocytes. Its main role is to store energy in the form of lipids, although it also cushions and insulates the body. Far from hormonally inert, adipose tissue has, in recent years, been recognized as a major endocrine organ, as it produces hormones such as leptin, estrogen, resistin, and the cytokine TNFα. The two types of adipose tissue are white adipose tissue (WAT), which stores energy, and brown adipose tissue (BAT), which generates body heat. The formation of adipose tissue appears to be controlled in part by the adipose gene. Adipose tissue – more specifically brown adipose tissue – was first identified by the Swiss naturalist Conrad Gessner in 1551.
Usage examples of "adipose tissue".
Fit as a fiddle only he has a lot of adipose tissue concealed about his person.
My own factual knowledge of DBDG anatomy tells me that you are unusually large and well muscled, and singularly lacking in unsightly, wobbly slabs of adipose tissue, for a male of your species.
And then, at 11:22, a substance began leaking through her ceiling: melted adipose tissue from the deceased.
Not only were the head and the hands hacked off, but there was a series of wide, deep gashes in the torso and thighs that exposed swaths of greasy adipose tissue.
Pesticides in general have a fondness for the lipids (fats) and thus tend to wind up in the adipose tissue, or body fat.
Miller was wearing a light gray assault uniform whose loose folds could not conceal a generous load of adipose tissue.
Were it not for the black eye, swollen lip, and twenty excess pounds of adipose tissue, he would not be an unattractive child.
She's really just a frightened, insecure little girl underneath that mountain of adipose tissue.
Women, after all, had a certain amount of excess adipose tissue to contend with.
At first sight, it was a flayed corpse: a mass of yellowish adipose tissue, great ropy blood-vessels, red and blue.
True, they weren't ornamental adipose tissue like human dugs, they were organs muscular and vascular, from which her infants had sucked not milk but blood.
Like a bear before hibernation, he had enough adipose tissue to shield him from the chill.
After twelve years of her experienced, ruthless operation, Djoy Skriffen was more than prosperous and had run to fat, being almost as broad as a huckster's table, though there still were hard muscles, a harder heart and a cold, calculating mind lodged within the mounds of jiggling adipose tissue.