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  • 11fat — {{Roman}}I.{{/Roman}} noun 1 substance directly under your skin ADJECTIVE ▪ excess, extra, stored ▪ Are you carrying extra fat around your middle? ▪ body ▪ baby …

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  • 12fat — /fæt / (say fat) adjective (fatter, fattest) 1. having much flesh other than muscle; fleshy; corpulent; obese. 2. having much edible flesh; well fattened: to kill a fat lamb. 3. consisting of, resembling, or containing fat. 4. having a large… …

  • 13fat-pad — An accumulation of somewhat encapsulated adipose tissue. SYN: corpus adiposum [TA], fat body. Bichat fat pad SYN: buccal fat pad. buccal fat pad an encapsuled mass of fat in the cheek on the outer side of the buccinator …

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  • 14fat heart — fatty heart 1. a heart affected with fatty degeneration. 1. a condition in which there is an excessive layer of fat deposited about and in the heart muscle. Called also cor adiposum …

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  • 15Health and Disease — ▪ 2009 Introduction Food and Drug Safety.       In 2008 the contamination of infant formula and related dairy products with melamine in China led to widespread health problems in children, including urinary problems and possible renal tube… …

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  • 16Somatotype and constitutional psychology — Constitutional psychology is a theory, developed in the 1940s by American psychologist William Herbert Sheldon, associating body types with human temperament types. Sheldon proposed that the human physique be classed according to the relative… …

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  • 17Cardiac muscle — Dog Cardiac Muscl …

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  • 18Body fat percentage — A person s body mass percentage is the total weight of the person s fat divided by the person s weight and consists of essential body fat and storage body fat. Essential body fat is necessary to maintain life and reproductive functions. The… …

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  • 19Somatotype and Constitutional Psychology — Constitutional psychology is a theory, developed in the 1940s by American psychologist William Herbert Sheldon, associating body types with human temperament types. Sheldon proposed that the human physique be classed according to the relative… …

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  • 20Intramuscular fat — or Intramuscular triglycerides (IMTG) is located throughout skeletal muscle and is responsible for the marbling seen in certain cuts of beef. In humans, excess accumulation of intramuscular fat is associated with insulin resistance and type 2… …

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