fat cell
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- noun
- /fæt sɛl/
- Specialized
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célula grasa
- Brown fat, a special type of fat cell, helps to generate heat when the body gets cold.
- mature fat cells
So you're, you're winding up with smaller fat cells, but more fat cells.
- So you're, you're winding up with smaller fat cells, but more fat cells.
- So it's you're filling the fat cells, you're also making new fat cells.
- They cause the differentiation of fat cells or they cause the growth of fat cells.
- So they have more smaller fat cells that can soak up more of this stuff.
- When I put on weight, is my body making new fat cells that I'm then stuck with?
- And we think that resistance to this key fat cell hormone leptin is part of that process.
- It's because what we are eating is reprogramming our cells to make fat cells.
- And as long as what you're doing is you're basically taking fat cells from your own body and then spinning those out as stem cells and then reinjecting those into your own body.
- These are far more inflammatory fatty acids that are fat cells are just getting packed up with.
- When that happens, it spills the grease into the fat cell.
- That is the largest cell in your entire body of any kind, fat cell, muscle cell, nerve cell, etcetera.
- We're only going to be putting stuff into fat cells.
Examples
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Therefore the droplets of fat in the fat cells are reduced and the fat cells shrink.
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Researchers found there was a significant difference in fat cells depending on the amount of time participants were able to sleep.
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Insulin will always tell those fat cells to store more fat, but not all fat cells.
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When I put on weight, is my body making new fat cells that I'm then stuck with?
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Basically, when fat cells are exposed to extreme cold, they cannot survive, they die and then they pass through the body.
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Researchers note that after participants went back to normal sleeping patterns, their fat cells returned to normal.
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After just 4 days of 4.5 hours of sleep per night, fat cells became less responsive to insulin.
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VLDL delivers lipids to your muscle and fat cells to be stored and used for energy.
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Produced by fat cells, adiponectin plays a role in modifying insulin metabolism.
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Fat cells send out hormonal signals that appear to have deleterious effects, particularly in triggering inflammation.
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Synonyms
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A body cell that stores fat for energy and to keep you warm
A body cell that stores fat under the skin and around organs
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a cell that stores fat' is directly and compositionally derived from the constituents 'fat' (the substance stored) and 'cell' (a biological unit). This noun-noun compound follows a common, cross-linguistic compounding pattern, so a B1 learner who knows both words will readily infer the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
The compound noun fat cell comes from the simple picture of tiny body units that hold fat. Fat is the substance and cell is the small unit, so the name means 'a cell that stores fat'.