adipescent

English

Etymology

adip- +‎ -escent

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɛsənt

Adjective

adipescent (comparative more adipescent, superlative most adipescent)

1. (medicine) Developing fatty deposits.
   • 1850, The edinburgh medical and surgical journal, page 458:

     The liver appears to have also been in the adipescent state.

   • 1851, David Craigie, Elements of general and pathological anatomy, page 901:

     The size and weight which the adipescent liver may acquire varies from five to eight or nine pounds.

   • 2000, Jeffrey A. Klein, Tumescent Technique:

     The earliest sign of fat cell differentiation in the adipescent fibroblasts is the appearance of small cytoplasmic vacuoles.