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fat body
fat bod·y
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Animal Structures
Definitions related to fat body:
  • A nutritional reservoir of fatty tissue found mainly in INSECTS and AMPHIBIANS.
    NLM Medical Subject Headings
    U.S. National Library of Medicine, 2021
  • Nutritional resevoir of fatty tissue found mainly in insects and amphibians.
    CRISP Thesaurus
    National Institutes of Health, 2006
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