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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
How To Use fatty tissue In A Sentence
- To make matters worse, thick, fibrous adhesions are often formed anchoring the congested, fatty tissue to the muscular layer below.
- False gynaecomastia or pseudo gynaecomastia is simply breast enlargement due to fatty tissue, and that is incredibly common of course, particularly as men get older.
- The stroma consists of fatty tissue and ligaments surrounding the ducts and lobules, blood vessels and lymphatic vessels.
- After age 40, the changes in the breasts become more pronounced, as fatty tissue begins to replace the supportive, fibrous tissue known as the stroma, and skin starts to sag more — regardless of whether a woman has had kids, and nursed them, or not. Mommy Wants Her Body Back
- The nerves are protected by thin sheaths of fatty tissue.
- Once you use up all of your available glucose during the digestive phase of metabolism (your body stores only about 300 calories in the short-term glycogen reservoir), it taps a long-term reservoir: fatty tissue in the form of triglycerides (molecules that include a carbohydrate-containing glycerol). You: On a Diet
- Nerve cells, like those of the brain, are enmeshed in fatty tissue.
- In the Great Lakes ecosystem, PCBs have bioaccumulated in the aquatic food web, especially in predator fish and in the fatty tissues of humans.
- U.S. doctors who use the purported stem cells for treatment contend they're not subject to FDA regulation because they simply collect patients' stem cells from blood, bone marrow and fatty tissues and reinfuse them without altering them much. Unapproved stem cell treatments causing concern
- Its raw belly meat provides the greatest otoro, the fatty tissue that is the most prized for sashimi and sushi.
