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Adiposis

//ˌæd.ɪˈpəʊ.sɪs// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A condition marked by the accumulation of adipose (fatty) tissue. countable, uncountable

    "These adiposes are etiologically divisible into two types; those, on the one hand, which constitute a phenomenon of hypo- or athyroidea; and, those, on the other hand, which are sequela to hypoplasias and to functional errors in the germinal organs (castration, genital infantilism, etc)."

  2. 2
    the property of excessive fatness wordnet

Etymology

From adipo- + -osis.

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