Definitions
Etymologies
- adipose + -ity, from Latin adeps ("fat, lard") (Wiktionary)
Examples
“But starting at age four to six years, that number of cells begins to increase docs call it adiposity rebound, and the cells accumulated during this period will forever want to be fed.”
“They found that when the children became overweight having a body mass index, or BMI, at or above the 85th percentile, the amount of fat under their skin and surrounding their major organs, known as adiposity, harmed their health.”
“OBESITY–Also called adiposity, this is a state of malnutrition in which the accumulation of body fat is so excessive that it negatively impacts a person’s health.”
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“1 Conversely, mounting evidence suggests that excess fat (what scientists call "adiposity") is associated with accelerated aging.”
“Total body fat was unchanged but there was a marginal (1.1%) reduction in abdominal adiposity with capsaicin.”
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“Consistent with these findings, in the high-fat fed mice, over 12 weeks, curcumin did not affect food intake but reduced body weight gain, adiposity, and microvessel density in adipose tissue.”
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“Ethnic variation in adiponectin and leptin levels and their association with adiposity and insulin resistance.”
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“Of 13 genetic variants tested, TRPV1 Val585Ile and UCP2 -866 G/A correlated significantly with change in abdominal adiposity.”
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“This was despite lack of difference in BMI or other measures of adiposity or body composition.”
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘adiposity’.
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Words that shouldn't be used on a fir...
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EN-HU - important words for a HU inte...
Words only (I left out the expressions) from Geza Kerenyi's EN-HU interpreters' dictionary. Most of them pose some difficulty when interpreted between HU and EN in either or both directions.
abalone, abrasive, abstractionist, abstruse, abysmal, academia, accessibility, accessible, acclimate, accolade, accompanist, achiever and 1469 more...
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My daily Wordsheets
paramour, flail, addle, adduce, adduction, adenitis, adenocarcinoma, adhocracy, adiabatic, adipocyte, adiposity, postpone and 25 more...
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1906 Railway Cipher Code
Terms from the Standard Cipher Code of the American Railway Association, 1906. The terms were shorthand for common phrases used in telegraphic communications between station agents and Railway Asso...
abdominal, abetting, abiology, ablative, abnormal, abominate, aboveboard, abrasive, absinth, abstinent, accursed, acetate and 212 more...
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bioinformatics and bioengineering words
What happens when you put a (former) English major at a bioinformatics and bioengineering summer institute? A list of wacky bio-words, of course!
proteomics, genomics, contig, dinucleotide, spectrometry, fovea, metagenomics, peptide, phylogenetics, protozoan, heterocyst, intracellular and 73 more...
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word set9
spongiform, stochastic, bibliobibuli, gangliest, macadamization, orchidaceous, fructiferous, phatically, persiflage, caliginous, helical, tracery and 72 more...
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Archaic Medical Conditions
dropsy, scurvy, ague, thrush, consumption, mania, rickets, scrumpox, variola, strangery, sloes, screws and 21 more...
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SUP Authors
Crazy, crazy words in the books we publish
phallocratic, boustrophedonically, verificationary, amb-iguity, amanuensis, scriptocentric, pathographies, (w)human, experientiality, hagiography, vitiate, prosopopoeia and 53 more...
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"A"-words
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Fatness
Word related to fatness.
Tweets
Looking for tweets for adiposity.
hernesheir Railroad telegraphers' shorthand for "willing to make advance on terms offered. --1906 US Railway Association Standard Cipher Code. Jan 19, 2013