adipescent
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- Rhymes: -ɛsənt
Adjective
[edit]adipescent (comparative more adipescent, superlative most adipescent)
- (medicine) Developing fatty deposits.
- 1850, The edinburgh medical and surgical journal, page 458:
- The liver appears to have also been in the adipescent state.
- 1851, David Craigie, Elements of general and pathological anatomy, page 901:
- The size and weight which the adipescent liver may acquire varies from five to eight or nine pounds.
- 2000, Jeffrey A. Klein, Tumescent Technique:
- The earliest sign of fat cell differentiation in the adipescent fibroblasts is the appearance of small cytoplasmic vacuoles.