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fat body
noun
- a mass of fatty tissue in insects, used as an energy source during hibernation and metamorphosis
- a similar tissue mass in amphibians and reptiles
Example Sentences
Yesika Salgado is a Los Angeles-based Salvadoran poet who writes about her family, her culture, her city and her fat body.
Excerpts from a report in 2021 show club management failed to tell Swim England about "a number of children’s attempted suicides, self-harming, drug use, physical assaults, sexual offences involving children and fat/body shaming often linked with a concerning weighing regime with associated eating disorders".
Testing the technique in fruit flies, the researchers found that 51 proteins voyaged from the animals’ muscles to their heads and 269 moved from the fat body, the insects’ main energy storehouse, to their legs.
"We found that the fly version of this protein is expressed in the fat body and brain which are analogous to the human liver and central nervous system respectively," Dr. Mengqi Ma, one of the first authors and a postdoctoral fellow in the Bellen lab, said.
I think there is a part of me that because I’m in this fat body that doesn’t work right — I saw somebody say that straight white men are the only group you can still joke about.
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