Fatty /(?)/
Fat·ty
Fatty
a.
- Containing fat, or having the qualities of fat; greasy; gross; as, a fatty substance.
Phrases & Compounds
- Fatty acid
- any one of the paraffin series of monocarbonic acids, as formic acid, acetic, etc.; -- so called because the higher members, as stearic and palmitic acids, occur in the natural fats, and are themselves fatlike substances.
- Fatty clays
- See under Clay.
- Fatty degeneration
- a diseased condition, in which the oil globules, naturally present in certain organs, are so multiplied as gradually to destroy and replace the efficient parts of these organs.
- Fatty heart
- a heart, liver, etc., which have been the subjects of fatty degeneration or infiltration.
- Fatty infiltration
- a condition in which there is an excessive accumulation of fat in an organ, without destruction of any essential parts of the latter.
- Fatty tumor
- a tumor consisting of fatty or adipose tissue; lipoma.