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adip(o)-

Fat or fatty tissues.

Latin adeps, adip‑, fat.

The usual adjective is adipose, mainly used in medical contexts to describe fatty body tissues; an adipocyte is a cell found in connective tissue that stores fat; adiposity is fatness, or a tendency to fatness; adipocere (Latin cera, wax) is a waxy substance sometimes formed by the decomposition of fatty tissue in dead bodies. See also lipo‑.

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