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adipose tissue

Tissue consisting primarily of adipocytes surrounded by reticular fibers arranged in lobular groups or along the course of a small blood vessel.

Related

adipocyte age-associated changes in adipose tissue fat

Specific

brown adipose tissue fatpad localized adiposity visceral fat; omental fat; intra-abdominal fat

General

tissue

References

Stedman's Medical Dictionary 27th ed, Williams & Wilkins, Baltimore, 1999