fatty tissue
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- noun
- /ˈfæti ˈtɪʃu/
- Specialized
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- As you gain weight, your body stores more energy in fatty tissue to help insulate and cushion your organs.
It acts on key proteins such as UCP, one in fatty tissue.
- It acts on key proteins such as UCP, one in fatty tissue.
- In fact, nicotine has this remarkable ability to move through that fatty tissue.
- So sometimes that entry point to the whole problem was having extra fat tissue.
- And so we asked, OK, let's take fat tissue from these patients with the we had the gut and we had the fat attached.
Examples
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Your body stores all toxins that it cannot get rid of in your fatty tissues.
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You see again, remember subcutaneous fatty tissue, the white line around and it's broken here.
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So if insulin is elevated even a little bit, your fat tissue will hold on to fat.
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As one might expect, the answer begins with fatty tissue: blubber.
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Plus, mercury is lipophilic, meaning that it concentrates in fatty tissues, especially in the brain, which is made mostly of fat.
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The body senses something that's going on in fat tissue that's not entirely normal, and it sends in the troops.
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Cellulite is the natural consequence of the fatty tissue holding water and toxins in suspension.
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The brain is made of soft, fatty tissue, with a consistency something like jello inside its protective membranes and the skull's hard casing.
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Getting thin thighs depends on how much of your thigh is muscle and how much is fatty tissue, and you can't target fat in an area to lose.
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Although the water quality of the Rhine has generally improved since the 1970s (by as much as tenfold), it will take time for this to be reflected in biological organisms owing to bioaccumulation and storage of pollutants in fatty tissue.
Academic text (1998)
Synonyms
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1.0
A soft oily substance in animals and plants that stores energy
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4.4
Tissue made of fat cells that stores energy and cushions organs
Antonyms
- Specialized
Tissue made of muscle cells that makes the body move and produce force
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'body tissue made up of cells that store fat' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'fatty' (containing fat) with 'tissue' (a group of cells). This straightforward attributive modification is cross-linguistically common and follows normal English noun phrase composition, so a B1 learner who knows both words will readily infer the MWE meaning.
Etymology
Fatty tissue is a simple, literal name: it is body tissue made of fatty cells, like soft padding under the skin. That's why it means the body material that 'stores energy' and 'cushions' organs.