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OBESE
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Excessively fat
Example:
a weighty man
Synonyms:
corpulent; obese; rotund; weighty
Classified under:
Similar:
fat (having an (over)abundance of flesh)
Derivation:
obesity (more than average fatness)
Context examples:
Being overweight does not always mean being obese.
(Overweight, NCI Dictionary)
Surgery performed in morbidly obese patients to help promote weight loss.
(Bariatric Surgery, NCI Thesaurus)
They have found that the genetic dice are loaded in favour of thin people and against those at the obese end of the spectrum.
(Slim people have a genetic advantage when it comes to maintaining their weight, University of Cambridge)
A lack of pancreatic polypeptide in the islets of Langerhans has been associated with the obese syndrome in rats and mice.
(Pancreatic polypeptide, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)
The research, carried out by Fuzhou Children's Hospital in China, involved 54 obese children between six and 14 years old.
(Supplements of 'Good Bacteria' Can Enhance Weight Loss in Dieters, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
The neck was drawn out like a plucked chicken’s, making the rest of him seem the more obese and unnatural by the contrast.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
You have a higher risk of type 2 diabetes if you are older, obese, have a family history of diabetes, or do not exercise.
(Diabetes Type 2, NIH: National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases)
Children have a higher risk of type 2 diabetes if they are obese, have a family history of diabetes, or are not active, and do not eat well.
(Diabetes in Children and Teens, NIH)
Our visitor bore every mark of being an average commonplace British tradesman, obese, pompous, and slow.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Obese individuals have elevated levels in adipose tissue of a key enzyme in glucocorticoid metabolism, 11beta hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase type 1 (11betaHSD-1). 11betaHSD-1 interconverts inactive corticosteroids and the active form.
(Metabolic Syndrome Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)
