Definition of "adipose" []

• Of, relating to, or composed of animal fat; fatty. (adjective)
• The fat found in adipose tissue. (noun)

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• "Since fat cells floated to the surface of the incubation medium, it proved a simple matter to separate and purify these cells from the mostly vascular cells in adipose tissue."
• "Korn had already established that the enzyme was present in adipose tissue."
• "The researchers revealed that the enzyme called adipose-specific phospholipase A2 (AdPLA) is found in abundance only in fat tissue."