Usually means: Stores energy, insulates, cushions organs.
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General (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. fatty tissue: Collins English Dictionary
  2. fatty tissue: Vocabulary.com
  3. fatty tissue: Dictionary.com
  4. Fatty tissue: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  5. fatty tissue: Rhymezone
  6. fatty tissue: FreeDictionary.org
  7. fatty tissue: Mnemonic Dictionary
  8. fatty tissue: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. fatty tissue: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. fatty tissue: Medical dictionary

(Note: See fatty_tissues as well.)

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noun:  a kind of body tissue containing stored fat that serves as a source of energy; adipose tissue also cushions and insulates vital organs ("Fatty tissue protected them from the severe cold")

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