Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

brown adipose tissue

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.75 in modern English

Syllables: brown adi-pose tis-sue
IPA

26

Scrabble Score

18

Letters

3

Syllables

13

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

One of the two types of adipose tissue present in many newborn or hibernating mammals which primarily serves to generate body heat, and which contains several small vacuoles and a relatively high number of mitochondria and capillaries.

Countable; Uncountable

Usage

Inflected Forms

brown adipose tissues (plural)

Phrases

white adipose tissue adipose tissue

Frequently Paired Words

white adipose tissue adipose tissue adipose tissue beige fat fat

Synonyms

BAT brown fat

Questions

What does brown adipose tissue mean?: One of the two types of adipose tissue present in many newborn or hibernating mammals which primarily serves to generate body heat, and which contains several small vacuoles and a relatively high number of mitochondria and capillaries.

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