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Definition of fat body in English: fat bodynoun Zoology Each of a number of small white structures in the body of an animal, especially an insect, which act as a store of fats and glycogen. Example sentencesExamples - They show disintegration of the fat body and most third instar larvae develop melanotic tumors.
- This may result from the dynamic equilibrium maintained between trehalase and glycogen in the insect fat body.
- Insects, in general, have the metabolic capacity to convert dietary carbohydrates to lipids and to store lipids within the fat body.
- Butterflies store fat in extensive abdominal fat bodies similarly to odonates and are known to use lipids as a fuel for extended flight.
- These peptides are released from the fat body cells into the hemolymph where they lyse invading microbial cells.
Definition of fat body in US English: fat bodynoun Zoology Each of a number of small white structures in the body of an animal, especially an insect, which act as a store of fats and glycogen. Example sentencesExamples - This may result from the dynamic equilibrium maintained between trehalase and glycogen in the insect fat body.
- Butterflies store fat in extensive abdominal fat bodies similarly to odonates and are known to use lipids as a fuel for extended flight.
- They show disintegration of the fat body and most third instar larvae develop melanotic tumors.
- These peptides are released from the fat body cells into the hemolymph where they lyse invading microbial cells.
- Insects, in general, have the metabolic capacity to convert dietary carbohydrates to lipids and to store lipids within the fat body.
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