adipo-, adip-, adipos- +

Fat, greasy.

1. As food additives, adipates are used as acidity regulators. Examples are sodium adipate and potassium adipate.
2. Lexicomedy: Having eaten fat: "He ate a lot of fat during his meals."

The excision of a mass of subcutaneous adipose (fat) tissue, as from the abdominal wall; also, lipectomy.

Becoming fatty.

1. Of a fatty nature; fatty; fat.
2. The fat present in the cells of adipose tissue.

Adipic Functions

The dermis is separated from the underlying sturctures by a layer of loose connective tissue and adipose tissue consisting of cells in which adipic material is stored in the form of globules (subcutaneous lipids).

Adipose also acts as an insulating layer that reduces loss of heat from the body, besides having a mechanical protective effect (cushioning).

1. Denoting fat or adipose tissue.
2. The rendered fat of swine, lard, used in the preparation of ointments (synonym: lard).

A true hernia with hernial sac, containing only fatty tissue, also called lipocele.

Relating to both fatty and cellular tissues, or to connective tissue with many fat cells.

Cellulose with a large amount of suberin, as cork tissue (suberin is a waxy substance developed in a thickened cell wall).

To convert into adipocere.

Relating to adipocere; also lipoceratous.

A fatty substance of waxy consistency into which dead animal tissues (as those of a corpse) are sometimes converted when kept from the air under certain favorable conditions of temperature.

Also described as a greyish white fatty or saponaceous substance spontaneously generated in dead bodies buried in moist places or submerged in water; also, grave wax, lipocere.

Having the form or appearance of adipocere.

Of the nature of adipocere.

A fat cell.